Hi,
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> The result of such bad hacks is that nobody really tests whether the new
> code works.
I want you to prove the three things your statement says:
- that this code is only implementable via a bad hack, and your idea is
implementable via a better hack
- Andre's Code is - without a look at it - ugly
- Unification changesets stay untested
> Depending on the kernel version, this either causes a system panic or
> just does not work at all. As all ATAPI CD-writers and CD-rom drives
> have a fallback to ATA commands, nobody who does not like to use a
> writer will ever notice the problem. They simply access the CD-ROM as
> read only ATA disk. If ide-cd would have been banned this bug would have
> been fixed years ago.
Because we can't tell Linux users "your (once favorite) CD-ROM is not
implemented in Linux (any more), and will never ever be". If we explicitly
exclude hardware, where do we end?!
Regards,
Thunder
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