Re: [RFC] removal of legacy cdrom drivers (Re: [PATCH] mcdx.c insanityremoval)
From: Rene Herman
Date: Sun May 02 2004 - 22:23:48 EST
viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Aiiee...
You know, mcdx.c is like a roadkill - just can't stop looking at the thing.
You should try sbpcd.c. I very enthousiastically opened that up one day,
thinking it might be a nice little newbie project, then after 30 seconds
gently closed it again and logged out and in of X to make very sure all
traces of the terminal that showed it were gone.
But...
How about removing all that stuff instead of keeping the known broken shit
in the tree?
I do actually still use two of these drives. An actual soundblaster
connected "sbpcd" drive (which sits in a 386, and given the fact that
the new init-module-tools didn't compile against libc5 I haven't tested
it modular there yet -- builtin it doesn't work) and a "Pro Audio
Spectrum" connected "cdu31a" which does work. Most of the time. When the
timing is just right, it even allows me to mount cd-roms:
root@5vd5:~# uname -r
2.6.5
root@5vd5:~# lsmod | grep cdu31a
cdu31a 24944 1
cdrom 34112 1 cdu31a
root@5vd5:~# mount | grep cdrom
/dev/sonycd on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,check=r)
root@5vd5:~# ls /mnt/cdrom/
cd.id install.exe lecdemos readme.doc resource support
If you are OK with that (and nobody on l-k stands up and claims that they want
it alive and *claims* *that* *right* *fucking* *NOW*) I'll send you a patch
putting these buggers out of their misery.
Hope this qualifies a bit. Must say that one of the things I appreciate
about Linux is that all this old gunk I have lying about (in fact, still
drag in from time to time) is actually supported. Or "supported".
Would it be good to have a CONFIG_LEGACY alongside CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
and friends and dump all this crap into drivers/legacy/cdrom, where it
wouldn't distract serious people?
Rene.
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