On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 01:32:53PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sun, 31 Jul 2006, Christer Weinigel wrote: > > > > Yes, a lot of those CD burners are ancient. But I like the fact that > > Linux supports a lot of ancient hardware. :-) > > Sure. But I don't think we should necessarily design any new code for it. > It's not like this has _ever_ worked differently from what it does now, so > if you have one of the pre-MMC drives, the right answer right now (and > always has been, I think) is that you need to be root to burn them. > > I seriously doubt anybody _really_ cares. > > That said, I don't think Peter Jones' patch is wrong. I don't have any > strong feelings about it - if people actually want this adn feels it > improves the situation, why not? Although to actually make _sense_, we'd > want to have distros that actually want to use the interface to > auto-populate the command things or something.. In the absense of interest > from distros, I don't think it is worth it. With my distro vendor hat on, I'm interested in anything that makes these bug reports go away. I don't particularly care on the mechanism, but we need *something*. Should his patch be accepted, Peter would likely be the poor soul who gets to implement the userspace bits for Fedora anyway, and I doubt he would've hacked up the patch if he hadn't intended to do so :) Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
