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

[Luke-Jr]

On Monday 13 February 2006 16:26, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Martin Mares <mj@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > If there is no interest to fox well known bugs in Linux, I would need
> > > to warn people from using Linux.
> >
> > Except for mentioning some DMA related problems at the beginning of this
> > monstrous thread, you haven't shown anything which even remotely
> > qualifies as a bug.
>
> If you forget these things, then please forget about this thread.
>
> 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.

> -	SCSI commands are bastardized on ATAPI

I'm not a kernel developer, but my understanding is that they're basically 
passed through the ATAPI layer.
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