Re: cdrom ripping / dropping to dingle frame dma

[Jens Axboe]

On Tue, Jun 15 2004, Nigel Rantor wrote:
> Jens Axboe wrote:
> >It did not, and it didn't fix the issue completely. My plan is to add a
> >counter just checking if we succeeded doing some dma ripping already,
> >in which case there's no point to falling back to lesser methods. That
> >should be way more reliable than checking sense and making up our on
> >rules based on that.
> >
> >I'll get a patch out tomorrow.
> 
> Cool, thanks for the reply. I'm quite happy to go to 2.6.7 if that's 
> what you'll be patching against.

I usually patch against current -BK, so if you run latest -bkX snapshot
you should be fine. The risk of rejects isn't too big in this area, so
2.6.7-rc3 should be adequate.

> Are you still looking for people who can reproduce this problem? If so 
> I'll try and find a couple of the CDs that I have that kill ripping now 
> on this kernel before applying any patches you come up with.

If you can find an easily reproducable test case to run on a patch,
that's certainly very helpful.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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