Re: PATCH (for 2.6.3-rc1) for cdrom driver dvd_read_struct

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Feb 11 2004 - 07:18:35 EST


On Tue, Feb 10 2004, Adam Kropelin wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 12:27:15PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 12:06:03PM -0600, Stuart_Hayes@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > >
> > > At risk of sounding stupid, how can a user space program check the type of
> > > media (DVD vs. CD) that's in the drive? I think that's what magicdev is
> > > trying to do.
> > > Thanks
> > > Stuart
> >
> >
> > Stuart, FYI, more linux-kernel ettiquite.
> >
> > People much prefer to see a quoting style as above (date, from line,
> > inline >-delimited note you're quoting, followed by non->-delimited
> > text. (Such as this). Outlook doesn't do this very well, as it
> > always wants to put your response at the top of the message, but with
> > cut-n-paste you can make the messages look more like what l-k expects.
>
> I find OE-QuoteFix and Outlook-QuoteFix do a nice job of making
> Outlook Express and Outlook, respectively, more standards compliant in
> this regard. In addition to fixing up the message quoting syntax to what
> Matt described, they also cleanly handle line wraps. In short, they make
> life much easier for those of us tied to Windows boxes at the office.
>
> OE-QuoteFix:
> http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/
>
> Outlook-QuoteFix:
> http://flash.to/outlook-quotefix/

Maybe it would be a good idea to have this info added to the FAQ, for
those unfortunately individuals that cannot easily switch to a decent
mua?

--
Jens Axboe

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