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

[Bill Davidsen]

On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:


> 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.

For no-longer-current hardware that would probably not be such a bad
thing.
> 
> Yeah, there's probably a fair number of those old CD-ROM drivers that 
> nobody uses with modern kernels (ie they might be used on some router that 
> hasn't been touched in forever, still running 2.2.x on a 8MB 386SX-16).

Well, I ran DNS on such a beast with 1.2.13 (from memory) until Y2k scared
me into updating the whole setup. But iptables is so much better than
ipchains that I hope there are fewer people using 2.2 for routers!

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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