Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5

From: Erik Andersen (andersen@codepoet.org)
Date: Sat Jul 13 2002 - 00:49:29 EST


On Fri Jul 12, 2002 at 10:17:21PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> CD burning is a side issue to stability and reliability.
>
> In terms of supporting old hardware most of that is irrelevant to cd
> recording anyway, so why do you care ? What you actually need is a
> generic interface for cd packet sending.

A generic interface for cd packet sending? Sounds useful. So
useful someone thought of it years ago, and called it the
CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctl. Its been in the kernel since Aug 1999.
What'll those crazy Linux CD-ROM people think of next?

 -Erik

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