Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices

[Joerg Schilling]

>From: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxx>

>> this is the reason why the patch forces the ata (atapi?) driver. no
>> SCSI driver or configuring of ide-scsi required.

>Maybe newer version broke then. Until very recently, cdrecord worked
>just fine as-is and used SG_IO access method when you used open by
>device name. Which was just the way we wanted it.

>If that doesn't work now, I suggest you take it up with Joerg. It's a
>problem with his program.

It's a problem caused by the design in the Linux kernel and not a problem of
libscg or cdrecord. 

The point is that Linux constantly invents new ugly and unneeded things and
after I found a workaround, people try to prevent the workaround from
being usable. 

In 1998, I did send a patch against the sg.c driver that introduced
everything that is needed for Generic SCSI transport. I am still waiting 
for even the needed features to appear........

Jörg

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