On 11/21/19 10:13 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > Hello, > > there is cdrom autoclose feature that is supposed to close the tray, > wait for the disc to become ready, and then open the device. > > This used to work in ancient times. Then in old times there was a hack > in util-linux which worked around the breakage which probably resulted > from switching to scsi emulation. > > Currently util-linux maintainer refuses to merge another hack on the > basis that kernel still has the feature so it should be fixed there. > The code needs not be replicated in every userspace utility like mount > or dd which has no business knowing which devices are CD-roms and where > the autoclose setting is in the kernel. This is a lot of code/churn (and even an fops addition...) to work around a broken hw emulation, essentially. Why aren't we just pushing vmware to fix this? -- Jens Axboe
