On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 20:37, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> >o Many ide floppy devices can do ATAPI but get it horribly wrong
>
> Describe the problems.
Go read the source code, do your own homework
> Depending on the kernel version, this either causes a system panic or
> just does not work at all. As all ATAPI CD-writers and CD-rom drives
> have a fallback to ATA commands, nobody who does not like to use a writer
> will ever notice the problem. They simply access the CD-ROM as read only
> ATA disk. If ide-cd would have been banned this bug would have been fixed years
> ago.
Which wouldnt work, because thats not what the CD interface part is
about
> >For disk it gets much easier. Linus has already said he wants a single
> >'disk' device, which once we get 32bit dev_t will be nice. With that we
> >can finally turn aacraid, megaraid and other 'fake scsi' devices back to
> >raw block devices without breaking compatibility assumptions, and get more
> >throughput.
>
>
> Sorry, this has nothing to do with dev_t
It has a huge amount to do with dev_t. It should be immediately obvious
why dev_t is a critical factor in getting that interface working in a
sane fashion.
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