Re: Video CD on Linux kernel 2.2

Gerd Knorr (kraxel@goldbach.in-berlin.de)
Mon, 22 Feb 1999 21:05:15 +0100


In lists.linux.kernel you write:

>In the CDROM-XA situation though, its probably better to add support for
>it in the ISO9660 driver directly as it doesnt require a new filesystem,
>just detect Mode2 sectors and deal with them properly.

It is'nt that simple. Detecting the Mode2 sectors is easy. But becauce
of the odd size you can't use the generic_file_* functions. isofs would
have to use its own set of read/write^H^H^H^H^H/mmap functions instead
of simply using the generic ones.

Gerd

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