Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 05 May 1999 09:28:10 -0400 | From | Douglas Gilbert <> | Subject | Re: Status of Linux SCSI generic implementation |
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> Hi, > > what is the current status of this and what are the plans for the > future? Apparently there is a lot of hurt feelings on the side of the > creator of the famous cdrecord program... > > J"org Schilling's notes on the topic are here > >http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/linuxscsi.html > > and a discussion of the three "competing" interfaces is here
>http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/sg.text > > Is this likely to get sorted out any time soon?
The new implementation is in place and working in 2.2.6 and 2.2.7 with some blemishes to be ironed out in a new patch hopefully to be ready for 2.2.8 (it's with ac now). The interface is just the tip of the iceberg. It will not change.
The driver has been accepted by David Mosberger-Tang (sane) and Monty (cdparanoia) as a reasonable (but not necessarily the best) compromise. Monty has a cdparanoia III alpha that uses some of the new features. Various other developers (some working for big corporations) seem to be happy with the progress.
Joerg Schilling holds out with his own interface on top of my implementation. He conveniently neglects to mention that he has borrowed about 1200 lines of my code which I continue to maintain. The problem with this is the bug fixes + minor implementation improvements that have been added in the last 7 weeks (since he forked the code). Hopefully with time he will either drop this approach of use run time selection in his transport library to support both (and I have supplied such a patch).
It seems as though some people want this debate re-opened and I will shortly make a posting to the linux-scsi list which seems like the correct place. That post will challenge most of the technical claims made in the above documents which I ignored in the forlorn hope that Joerg would, in time, relent. I will do my best to ignore the personal accusations.
Doug Gilbert [current ;-) ] maintainer of the sg device driver
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