Re: status of cdrom patches for 2.4 ?

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Nov 24 2004 - 09:24:18 EST


On Wed, Nov 24 2004, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 01:11:13AM +0200, O.Sezer wrote:
> > Hi all:
> >
> > What are the status of the cdrom patches for 2.4 series?
> > Namely the dvd patches which are dropped while in the
> > 27-rc era, and the cd-mrw patch which never had a chance
> > trying to go in to 2.4. Jens? Mancelo?
>
> There were problems with the DVD-RW patches so I reverted them.
>
> Jens, what do you think?

I don't think it's worth the bother, the support is in 2.6. And I don't
want to maintain new atapi stuff for 2.4. Pat used to care about the
patches, but as he is no longer with Iomega I don't think there's anyone
to look after it.

--
Jens Axboe

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