Re: CDROM Oops patch

Erik Andersen (andersen@inconnect.com)
Mon, 22 Jun 1998 20:09:50 -0600

On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 02:21:42PM +0200, David A. van Leeuwen wrote:
> Erik,
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>
> This breaks 2.0 compatibility and will couse people to randomly send
> patches to comment out some of the code in cdrom.c
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>
> ---david

I now agree that making this change would be the wrong thing to do. The
main reason I now agree with you is due to programs such as cdda2wav
which open the device for data but that _want_ to have audio media in
the drive. Any intelligent user space program can simly set the magic
behavior flags. You were right and I was wrong. This change will be
dropped from my patch.

-Erik

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