Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] Fix cdrom autoclose

[Michal Suchánek]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 12:00:03PM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 11/21/19 10:13 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > there is cdrom autoclose feature that is supposed to close the tray,
> > wait for the disc to become ready, and then open the device.
> > 
> > This used to work in ancient times. Then in old times there was a hack
> > in util-linux which worked around the breakage which probably resulted
> > from switching to scsi emulation.
> > 
> > Currently util-linux maintainer refuses to merge another hack on the
> > basis that kernel still has the feature so it should be fixed there.
> > The code needs not be replicated in every userspace utility like mount
> > or dd which has no business knowing which devices are CD-roms and where
> > the autoclose setting is in the kernel.
> 
> This is a lot of code/churn (and even an fops addition...) to work around
> a broken hw emulation, essentially. Why aren't we just pushing vmware
> to fix this?

This is fix for kernel feature: cdrom autoclose.

There is one patch that deals with blacklisting the feature on VMWare
becase their emulation is broken and triggers an issue with the feature
when it actually works.

Thanks

Michal