From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266275AbUHSOdd (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:33:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266256AbUHSOdE (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:33:04 -0400 Received: from acheron.informatik.uni-muenchen.de ([129.187.214.135]:54169 "EHLO acheron.informatik.uni-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266275AbUHSOcv (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:32:51 -0400 Message-ID: <4124BA10.6060602@bio.ifi.lmu.de> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:32:48 +0200 From: Frank Steiner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040503) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joerg Schilling Cc: kernel@wildsau.enemy.org, diablod3@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices References: <200408041233.i74CX93f009939@wildsau.enemy.org> <4124A024.nail7X62HZNBB@burner> In-Reply-To: <4124A024.nail7X62HZNBB@burner> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Joerg Schilling wrote: > The GPL requires you not to impact the original authors' reputations, but this > is what SuSE is doing by publishing defective variants. What a stupid claim. When I call cdrecord on SuSE 9.1, I can burn CDs and DVDs as normal user, without root permissions, without suid, without ide-scsi, using /dev/hdc as device. And this just works fine. So where's the problem? -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049