Re: 'bad: scheduling while atomic!', preempt kernel, 2.6.1-test11,reading an apparently duff DVD-R

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Pardon me for asking a dumb and possibly impertinent question, but why
> keep it around at all?

Hey, I've tried to kill it off, but people keep on wanting it. Either
because they are lazy and can't upgrade the tools to write CD's with the
regular ide-cd interfaces, or because they have IDE tapes and want to use
st.c to drive them.

ide-cd.c obviously does _not_ handle tapes. We could make the generic IDE
layer open them and let people do SCSI commands on them (and that probably
wouldn't be too hard), but somebody needs to _care_.

Right now ide-scsi (and the alternatives, like doing SCSI commands onto
any ATAPI device just using the regular IDE layer) are mostly hampered by
people complaining about them but not actually _doing_ anything.

I'll try something that rips out the reset handling altogether from
ide-scsi, let's see how that works (should be easy enough to test with a
black marker and an old CD-ROM).

		Linus
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