On Sun Jul 14, 2002 at 04:20:55PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
> >From andersen@codepoet.org Sat Jul 13 07:49:29 2002
>
> >On Fri Jul 12, 2002 at 10:17:21PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> >> CD burning is a side issue to stability and reliability.
> >>
> >> In terms of supporting old hardware most of that is irrelevant to cd
> >> recording anyway, so why do you care ? What you actually need is a
> >> generic interface for cd packet sending.
>
> >A generic interface for cd packet sending? Sounds useful. So
> >useful someone thought of it years ago, and called it the
> >CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctl. Its been in the kernel since Aug 1999.
> >What'll those crazy Linux CD-ROM people think of next?
>
> We don't need just another unrelated interface but a generic
> transort. CDROM_SEND_PACKET is not a generic interface, it is limited
> to ATAPI CD-ROM's.
Wrong. It is a _generic CD-ROM packet interface. Thanks for not even
spending the two seconds it would take reading the kernel source code
to discover this.
$ grep -l CDC_GENERIC_PACKET drivers/scsi/sr.c drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
drivers/scsi/sr.c
drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
-Erik
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