From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
Cc: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cdrecord hangs my computer
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 14:32:08 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0312061429080.2092@home.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031206220227.GA19016@work.bitmover.com>
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Larry McVoy wrote:
>
> Hey, that "piece of crap" has burned one heck of a lot of ISO images of
> Linux over the years.
And so does windows. That doesn't make it good.
> How about a nod of thanks to the author before you tell him you don't
> like his interface?
I tried to tell him why numbers are bad. Very politely, explaining that a
lot of devices cannot be enumerated by a traditional "bus/dev/lun" scheme.
He basically cursed at me, and told me that that is how SCSI works. Never
mind that IDE isn't SCSI, and even SCSI doesn't work that way any more
(iSCSI comes to mind).
I can be polite. But when there is no reason to be polite, I can be blunt
too.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-06 22:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-06 8:01 cdrecord hangs my computer Tero Knuutila
2003-12-06 8:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-06 8:54 ` Ethan Weinstein
2003-12-06 11:59 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-06 13:40 ` Wakko Warner
2003-12-06 14:37 ` John Bradford
2003-12-06 21:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-06 22:02 ` Larry McVoy
2003-12-06 22:32 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2003-12-07 11:01 ` Eduard Bloch
2003-12-07 16:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-08 16:21 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-08 17:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-09 12:38 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-12-08 17:53 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-12-08 18:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-08 19:40 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-12-09 14:50 ` Ian Soboroff
2003-12-09 20:42 ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-12-08 16:24 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-12-08 19:22 ` dialectical deprecation " Bob
2003-12-09 21:19 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-09 22:31 ` David Lang
2003-12-09 21:51 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-08 4:36 ` Bob
2003-12-08 4:51 ` Larry McVoy
2003-12-07 0:16 ` Wakko Warner
2003-12-07 3:31 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-07 4:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-08 16:13 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-08 17:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-08 19:41 ` bluefaceplate demographics " Bob
2003-12-06 16:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-06 12:39 Tero Knuutila
2003-12-06 18:27 Tero Knuutila
2003-12-06 19:08 Tero Knuutila
2003-12-08 9:31 Douglas Gilbert
2003-12-11 12:56 ` Jens Axboe
2003-12-11 16:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-15 13:29 Paul Marinceu
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