Re: Video CD on Linux kernel 2.2
Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:43:26 -0800 (PST)
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> >In the CDROM-XA situation though, its probably better to add support for
> >it in the ISO9660 driver directly as it doesnt require a new filesystem,
> >just detect Mode2 sectors and deal with them properly.
> It is'nt that simple. Detecting the Mode2 sectors is easy. But becauce
> of the odd size you can't use the generic_file_* functions. isofs would
> have to use its own set of read/write^H^H^H^H^H/mmap functions instead
> of simply using the generic ones.
Ah, ok. So how hard would it be to write 2336 byte versions of the
generic_file_* functions, or even *cough* generic ones for any sector size
;)
-Dan
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