From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 7 23:56:33 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0335837B402; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 23:56:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D1D7E6A90D; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 18:26:11 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 18:26:11 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Soren Schmidt Cc: Matt Dillon , Will Andrews , =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: please do not close the drive tray automatically. (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c) Message-ID: <20010108182611.C83353@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200101080708.f0878ho23507@earth.backplane.com> <200101080724.IAA14072@freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101080724.IAA14072@freebsd.dk>; from sos@freebsd.dk on Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 08:24:20AM +0100 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 8 January 2001 at 8:24:20 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Matt Dillon wrote: >> Umm. I'm going to be a pest: If the drive tray is open the very LAST >> thing I want is for the device driver to try to close it on me. A >> windows box *destroyed* a CD (by scratching the hell out of it) that I >> was trying to insert into the machine by closing the drive tray before >> I had the CD completely seated. I do not want the same to happen under >> FreeBSD just because some program (say, like sysinstall) tries to open >> the CD device. > > Hmm, I think its a pretty nice idea actually, maybe we should call a > vote for this feature ? Whats happening on the voting thing that > was talked so much about ? I don't think we need to vote on it, but if others do, I don't have a problem. It seems that a sysctl would do the job nicely in this case, if you find anybody else who wants the feature. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message