Re: [PATCH] cdda reading

Jens Axboe (axboe@image.dk)
Mon, 11 Oct 1999 12:46:26 +0200

On Mon, Oct 11 1999, Vladimir Chernyshov wrote:
> Hi
>
> In recent version of generic CDROM driver the number of blocks
> requestable with CDROMREADAUDIO ioctl has been limited to 8. Why?
> This breaks for example nice cdda2wav program, which used to
> request 75 blocks (1 sec of audio) at once.
>
> Here is a patch for it... I am not sure to what number of block
> we should limit the request size, so I have put 300 (4 seconds).
> Should we limit it at all?

Thanks, I must have missed that cdda2wav did something like
that. I'll add the patch.

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*  Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk>
*  Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
*  http://www.kernel.dk


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