Re: Devices not supporting read-6....

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@www.transmeta.com)
Date: Sat Jan 22 2000 - 15:19:18 EST


Erik Andersen wrote:
>
> I invite you to read drivers/cdrom.c and include/linux/cdrom.h. The
> CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctl has been added to the interface during the 2.3.x
> series, and allows you to send arbitrary packets to a low-level cdrom
> driver that supports CDC_GENERIC_PACKET (i.e. ide and scsi).
>
> /me thinks the uniform cdrom driver is very cool, but then I'm biased.
>

This seems like the wrong way of doing this. This *definitely*
shouldn't be CDROM-specific.

        -hpa

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