Re: 2.9test9-mm1 and DAO ATAPI cd-burning corrupt

[viro]

On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 09:52:52AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote:
> > 
> > Well, I hope its in better state than the Mitsumi driver, because last
> > time I tried it was broken (oopsed in a simple cat) since a 2.3.xx
> > IIRC [0]
> 
> Since 2._3_.xx?
> 
> > [0]  Tracked it down to a -pre if anyone is interested and its still
> >      broken.. 
> 
> Quite frankly, if it's literally been broken since 2.3.x, I think the best 
> thing to do would be to remove the driver entirely.

... or give it to somebody on kernel-janitors and tell them to bring the
series of *provable* cleanups and fixes, getting the driver into decent
form.  Would be a good exercise.
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