From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932120AbWBMRhT (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:37:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932297AbWBMRhS (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:37:18 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:22699 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932120AbWBMRhR (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:37:17 -0500 Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:37:16 +0100 From: Martin Mares To: Joerg Schilling Cc: seanlkml@sympatico.ca, sam@vilain.net, peter.read@gmail.com, matthias.andree@gmx.de, lkml@dervishd.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jim@why.dont.jablowme.net, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) Message-ID: References: <43F097AE.nailKUSK1MJ9O@burner> <20060213095038.03247484.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> <43F0A771.nailKUS131LLIA@burner> <43F0B32D.nailKUS1E3S8I3@burner> <43F0BA53.nailMDD11T4U8@burner> <43F0C19C.nailMDR1O1BOX@burner> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43F0C19C.nailMDR1O1BOX@burner> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello! > The warnings are not silly. They could have been removed long ago > if the icd-scsi DMA bug was fixed. This doesn't make sense, the usual case when the warning is printed, that is referring to /dev/hd* directly, doesn't use ide-scsi at all. Hence the only logical warning would be exactly the opposite: warn the user if he uses ide-scsi, because you know it's broken. Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected. (6/72)