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SubjectRe: 2.6.0-mm1
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.

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Jens Axboe

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