From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266692AbUHIPp6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 11:45:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266643AbUHIPm4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 11:42:56 -0400 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:57041 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266303AbUHIPkb (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 11:40:31 -0400 Subject: Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices From: David Woodhouse To: Joerg Schilling Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, axboe@suse.de, James.Bottomley@steeleye.com, eric@lammerts.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200408091421.i79ELiPS010580@burner.fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <200408091421.i79ELiPS010580@burner.fokus.fraunhofer.de> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1092066015.4383.5344.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2.dwmw2.1) Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 16:40:15 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 16:21 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Please try again after you had a look into the cdrtools sources. Jrg, you are making a fool of yourself. > Cdrecord also needs privilleges to lock memory and to raise prioirity. Wrong. Cdrecord does not always _need_ to lock memory or to raise its priority. To do so may be useful when using older drives without buffer underrun protection, but is not strictly necessary on current hardware. > Jrg -- dwmw2