Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

From: Martin Mares
Date: Mon Feb 13 2006 - 12:35:40 EST


Hello!

> The warnings are not silly. They could have been removed long ago
> if the icd-scsi DMA bug was fixed.

This doesn't make sense, the usual case when the warning is printed,
that is referring to /dev/hd* directly, doesn't use ide-scsi at all.
Hence the only logical warning would be exactly the opposite: warn the
user if he uses ide-scsi, because you know it's broken.

Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@xxxxxx> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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