Re: 2.6.0-test5 & test6 cd burning/scheduler/ide-scsi.c bug

[bill davidsen]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310051928440.25623-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mark W. Alexander <slash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| The first problem is that those applications need to be notified that
| "the times, they are a changin'." I suggest you submit bug reports to
| them so they can at least fail hard and be given time to prepare for
| the 2.6 way.

Would it not be better to fix the kernel rather than try to get the
authors of every application to add a Linux-only fix? And expect every
future application to be written for Linux and the rest of the world?
-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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