Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) (was:Rationale for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK?)

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Wed Jan 25 2006 - 09:46:29 EST



>> And if you check the amount of completely unneeded code Linux currently has
>> just to implement e.g. SG_IO in /dev/hd*, it could even _save_ space in the
>> kernel when converting to a clean SCSI based design.
>
>Please point me at that huge amount of code. Hint: there is none.

I'm getting a grin:

15:46 takeshi:../drivers/ide > find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep SG_IO
(no results)

Looks like it's already non-redundant :)



Jan Engelhardt
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