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Date:      Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:17:34 +0100
From:      Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cdcontrol via atapicam in 4.8-RC
Message-ID:  <200303111117.40339.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030310044541.10713.qmail@pikachu.bsp.bc.niigata-u.ac.jp>
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On Monday 10 March 2003 05:45, Mamoru Iwaki wrote:

> Hopefully, it would be fixed in 4.8-RELEASE because enabling both
> atapicam and atapi?? looks dangerous; i.e. it is hard to guarantee
> mutually exclusive access to the device, and there is no description
> in case that the device is accessed via both ways simultaneously.

It's not so bad, I've run FreeBSD with both enabled even before atapicam was 
merged into the tree and didn't have problems - it's not so easy to manage 
and create a situation where two applications try accessing the two devices 
at the same time after all.

-- 
Regards,
	Michael Nottebrock
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