Re: ide-cd problems

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Aug 03 2004 - 13:33:11 EST


On Maw, 2004-08-03 at 16:28, Doug Maxey wrote:
> Where would the case of firmware download fit? For x86 ATA/ATAPI
> devices, the vendor usually supplies a dos disk to accomplish this.

We already have CAP_SYS_RAWIO methods for such things so that is ok.
As to the claim that allowed commands vary by device I disagree. At the
"user safe" level the list is somewhat smaller and consistent

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