From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [git patches] libata update Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:02:34 +0900 Message-ID: <472158CA.1090600@gmail.com> References: <20071012194002.GA1545@havoc.gtf.org> <20071013070535.D339CA364AB@smtp01.mtu.ru> <4710A420.9000108@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.189]:29543 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758252AbXJZDCo (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:02:44 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k20so660161rvb for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:02:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4710A420.9000108@garzik.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Andrey Borzenkov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > Andrey Borzenkov wrote: >> Jeff Garzik wrote: >> >>> * Asynchronous notification -- finally userspace CD-ROM polling can go >>> away! >>> (NOTE: waiting on James B to apply the piece that actually makes this >>> work...) >> >> Does it depend on hardware offering suitable support? What are chances >> for >> it to work on 5 years old DVD-ROM? > > Correct -- it requires a new SATA CD-ROM with the AN capability. And some SATA CD-ROMs lie about AN capability and sends nothing when media event occurs. Do we need to start a blacklist or whitelist? :-) -- tejun