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SubjectRe: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5
Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Thu Jul 11, 2002 at 05:27:11PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>>Okay, I have suggested this before, and I haven't quite looked at this
>>in detail, but I would again like to consider the following,
>>especially given the changes in 2.5:
>>
>>Please consider deprecating or removing ide-floppy/ide-tape/ide-cdrom
>>and treat all ATAPI devices as what they really are -- SCSI over IDE.
>>It is a source of no ending confusion that a Linux system will not
>>write CDs to an IDE CD-writer out of the box, for the simple reason
>>that cdrecord needs access to the generic packet interface, which is
>>only available in the nonstandard ide-scsi configuration.
>
>
> cdrecord should use the CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctl, then it would
> work regardless,
>

Lovely. Let's make EACH APPLICATION support two disjoint APIs for no
good reason.

Got any other brilliant ideas?

-hpa


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