Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) (was: Rationale for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK?)

[Joerg Schilling]

Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> >> And if you check the amount of completely unneeded code Linux currently has 
> >> just to implement e.g. SG_IO in /dev/hd*, it could even _save_ space in the 
> >> kernel when converting to a clean SCSI based design.
> >
> >Please point me at that huge amount of code. Hint: there is none.
>
> I'm getting a grin:
>
> 15:46 takeshi:../drivers/ide > find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep SG_IO
> (no results)
>
> Looks like it's already non-redundant :)

everything in drivers/block/scsi_ioctl.c  is duplicate code and I am sure I 
would find more if I take some time....

Jörg

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