Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:22:33 -0500 (EST) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: 2.9test9-mm1 and DAO ATAPI cd-burning corrupt |
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On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Quite frankly, if it's literally been broken since 2.3.x, I think the best > thing to do would be to remove the driver entirely.
For no-longer-current hardware that would probably not be such a bad thing. > > Yeah, there's probably a fair number of those old CD-ROM drivers that > nobody uses with modern kernels (ie they might be used on some router that > hasn't been touched in forever, still running 2.2.x on a 8MB 386SX-16).
Well, I ran DNS on such a beast with 1.2.13 (from memory) until Y2k scared me into updating the whole setup. But iptables is so much better than ipchains that I hope there are fewer people using 2.2 for routers!
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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