Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

[Joerg Schilling]

Luke-Jr <luke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I mentioned:
> >
> > -	ide-scsi does not do DMA correctly
>
> IIRC, ide-scsi is deprecated and would be removed as a fix for this bug. Note 
> that ide-scsi is known to be broken in more ways than just this-- for 
> example, unloading the module causes a kernel panic.

A last word on that:

-	this bug is known for more than 2 years.

-	time to fix: less than 3 hours for the right person

-	I therefore expect a fix in less than a month or
	I must asume that Linux is not longer actively maintained.

Jörg

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