Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:20:07 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@deepcore.dk> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c atapi-cd.h Message-ID: <473E25A7.2020101@deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <33907.1195254953@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <33907.1195254953@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <473E238D.4030800@samsco.org>, Scott Long writes: > =20 >> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> =20 > > =20 >>>> Well, there are two questions: media present (yes/no) and drive cap= able >>>> of telling if media present without just trying to read it (yes/no).= >>>> =20 >>> This risk reopening the old religious war if drivers should poll >>> their drives to be up to date on media existence. >>> =20 >> This has nothing to do with polling, you're just trotting out an=20 >> irrelevant argument to divert attention. >> =20 > > No, I merely pointed out that Nates worries had an obvious and widely > accepted solution, which unfortunately is religiously unacceptable > in certain parts of FreeBSD storage subsystems. > > For all I know, the problem sos@ has complained about has a solution > that just needs somebody to change the relevant few lines of code. > =20 Exactly, and until that has been hashed out I rest my case, I have=20 better things todo. -S=F8ren
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