Re: writable mmc profiles actually are writable

Jens Axboe
2003-10-07T06:48:34Z

On Mon, Oct 06 2003, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 07:38:58AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 06 2003, Pat LaVarre wrote:
> > > Yep, still happy, same in -test6 as in -test5 e.g.
> > >
> > > $ dmesg | grep ^sr
> > > sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 125x/125x caddy
> > > sr0: scsi3-mmc maybe not writeable
> > > sr0: scsi3-mmc writable profile: 0x0002
> > > $
> > > $ grep MMC /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info
> > > Can write other MMC-RW: 1 ...
> >
> > I don't quite agree with this patch. Please add the GET_CONFIGURATION
> > stuff to cdrom.c instead so it works with ide-cd as well (ide-scsi is
> > basically dead, and the number of scsi drives out there isn't exactly
> > big and increasing). GPCMD_GET_CONFIGURATION already exists. Also, make
> > DVD-RAM drives set CDC_MMC_RW as well and only check for that at open.
>
> While the number of SCSI CD-ROM drives may be shrinking, the ATAPI drives
> behind a USB/ATAPI bridge is skyrocketing.

Doesn't change the picture, if you put it in cdrom.c it will work for
both.

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Jens Axboe