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

[Matthias Andree]

Joerg Schilling schrieb am 2006-02-20:

> > Noted. However even if I do create said patch, I'm more than 90% certain you 
> > won't even take a look at it.
> 
> If your code will have similar relevence than the code from Matthias, you are 
> obviously true.

Well, it is irrelevant to _you_ because it proves you're wrong. At
least, not a single objective argument WRT bugs in side the code have
surfaced.

> One problem is that GNU make is not working in a useful way on many patforms
> that are listed to be working. GNU make is unmaintained since many years and
> a serious bug I reported in 1999 still has not been fixed.

The so-called "serious" bug is a purely cosmetic complaint about
non-existant .d files.

> > Says you. Since the SCSI system via /dev/hd* was just added in, IIRC, the 2.5 
> > series kernel - at the same time ide-scsi was deprecated access via SG_IO 
> > on /dev/hd* is the new method and not deprecated.
> 
> Any system that is worse than another one is deprecated.

Hm. Schilling's applications are worse than others by printing
meaningless warnings...

> If people on LKML believe it is OK not to abide promises and if they don't have 

Your delusions about who "promise"d something to you...

> Well, on such a system, a /dev/hd driver is not needed for the CD-ROM.
> A SCSI disk driver would be sufficient.

Not your business.

-- 
Matthias Andree
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