Re: capability flag for ATAPI MO (from kernel mailing list)

[Pascal Schmidt (der.eremit@email.de)]

On Fri, 30 May 2003, David Wilson wrote:

> Is optical (or CDC_OPTICAL) a good name for this capability?
> After all, CD CD-R CD-RW DVD DVD+/-R(W) are all optical.

Well, I simply used something similar to ide_optical from IDE code, but
I agree that it's not optimal.

> That said, a better name does not immediately spring to mind
> (unless MOPTICAL works for you - magneto-optical seems too long).

I'll see what Jens has to say about the name. CDC_MOPTICAL looks ugly
to me, and CDC_MO too short. Maybe CDC_MO_DRIVE would work if
CDC_OPTICAL is not acceptable.

-- 
Ciao,
Pascal

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