Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:56:01 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.0-mm1 |
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On Tue, Dec 23 2003, Pascal Schmidt wrote: > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Jens Axboe wrote: > > >> Since the atapi-mo patch is mine, is there something I need to do? > > Nah don't worry about it, Andrew and I just agreed that I'd merge the > > remaining changes once 2.6.0-mm1 was up. Basically, MO needs to set > > _RAM capability so we can kill the various MO checks. > > Please remember that you can't send the MO drive any DVD-RAM specific > commands and expect it to work. The special-casing in the probe routine > in ide-cd is there for a reason, and I don't think calling > cdrom_dvdram_open_write would be a good idea, either. I haven't actually > looked at that routine, but if it sends anything to the drive, my MO > drive won't like it one bit. It will at best error out and then > cdrom_dvdram_open_write will error out, too, disallowing opening for > write, right?
The changes are nothing like that. Don't confuse CDC_DVD_RAM and CDC_RAM - the latter just means that it is ok to open this media for random writes so we don't have to check for three types of different devices.
-- Jens Axboe
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