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

From: Matthias Andree
Date: Mon Feb 13 2006 - 15:11:50 EST


Joerg Schilling schrieb am 2006-02-13:

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

The warnings are way off track, because

1. /dev/hd* means ide-cd which has never had the incriminated bugs,
no matter if badly designed or not

2. you can't tell from looking at /dev/sg* or the b,t,l if the device
node is operated by the ide-scsi or sg drivers. Both use the unified
/dev/sg* namespace.

In fact, it makes sense to suppress the warning for /dev/hd* and ATA:
which are known good.

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Matthias Andree
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