Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 00:07:05 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds? Message-ID: <200008220607.AAA01652@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:38:11 CDT." <14753.62883.183839.508028@guru.mired.org> References: <14753.62883.183839.508028@guru.mired.org> <14753.20681.165961.352066@guru.mired.org> <20000821104114.A67935@panzer.kdm.org> <14753.42672.286077.409965@guru.mired.org> <20000821163458.A70871@panzer.kdm.org> <14753.47379.141329.994631@guru.mired.org> <20000821175657.A71753@panzer.kdm.org> <14753.50849.16035.805395@guru.mired.org> <20000821212517.B73232@panzer.kdm.org>
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In message <14753.62883.183839.508028@guru.mired.org> Mike Meyer writes: : Do you claim ownership of all the drivers in cam/scsi, or can someone : with more tolerant religious convictions add a driver that's a clone : of the CD driver + MMC extensions that gets first crack at CDROM : drives, and recognizes MMC drives, but not others? Ken wrote the cd driver as well as large parts of CAM. Chances are good that what you are calling religious convictions were actually hard fought engineering decisions that have the backing of hard experience plus many more "details" that Ken might not recall off the top of his head but that lead to his views. Having said this, if you can come up with a foolproof way to get the ioctls right on all the drives that do support them, even the whacked out ones that need all kinds of quirky entries, and do it in a way that doesn't needlessly bloat the kernel for little gain (few people, in the scheme of things, have cd-r or cd-rw on their machines and use them to burn disks), then he might reconsider his views. However, much of your posts have had an "airchair quarterback" feel to them and unless and until you have working code, nobody's opinions are going to change. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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