Hi, Back in 1998, if I recall correctly, Erik Andersen posted on lkml that he was looking for someone to take over development and maintainership of the cdrom drivers. I responded to that, and ended up maintaining and continuing the development of that part of the kernel. Outside of working on that part of the stack, it eventually led to diving further down the rabbit hole and into the general block IO stack. In many ways, it kick started by career in kernel development. These days I've got a lot on my plate, and areas like cdrom have been neglected as a result. This obviously isn't an area of hot development these days, but even so it still needs someone that cares for the code and is available to review and merge patches in a timely fashion. I haven't been able to do so for quite a while. In the spirit of passing on the baton, I think we're way overdue for some new blood in this area. With the recent removal of the old parallel IDE code, the old atapi cdrom driver is gone. Hence there are really two parts to this these days: 1) drivers/scsi/sr.c - the SCSI cdrom driver. My suggestion would be to fold this in with general SCSI maintainership, as that's really where that belongs. 2) drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c - the uniform cdrom layer. This is really the meat of it. sr is a consumer, and so is the paride cdrom driver and the sega dreamcast cdrom driver. If you have any interest and experience with cdrom/dvd and mmc/atapi, I would love to hear from you. Let's find a new good home for this code. -- Jens Axboe
