Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Mar 2003 20:04:21 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.64-mm6: kernel BUG at kernel/timer.c:155! |
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On Thu, Mar 13 2003, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> > Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 18:54:54 +0100 > To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> > Subject: Re: 2.5.64-mm6: kernel BUG at kernel/timer.c:155! > > > On Thu, Mar 13 2003, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > > I was reading back a freshly burned CD from my shiny new Plexwriter > > > 48/24/48A. I'm using ide-scsi, so this is an iso9660 filesystem mounted > > > > out of curiousity, why? ide-cd should work much better than ide-scsi in > > 2.5, if it doesn't I'd like to know. > > There are still userspace CD burning programs that do not yet > support ATAPI burning interface. "cdrecord" does support it, > but K3B (a KDE burning frontend to cdrecord and company) > only works with SCSI or IDE-SCSI burners (well, or at least > I have been unable to convince it to use the ATAPI interface > to my Sony burner).
That is quite possible. Maybe someone could compile a list of programs that still use read/write to /dev/sg*?
I had at some point planned to allow arbitrary block device -> /dev/sg* mapping, maybe it would be a good idea to finish that thought. Then you wouldn't have to rely on programs using SG_IO ioctl, which does seem like a bad idea.
-- Jens Axboe
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