Re: cd burning with plextor drives.

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 01:32:53PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > 
 > 
 > On Sun, 31 Jul 2006, Christer Weinigel wrote:
 > > 
 > > Yes, a lot of those CD burners are ancient.  But I like the fact that
 > > Linux supports a lot of ancient hardware. :-)
 > 
 > Sure. But I don't think we should necessarily design any new code for it. 
 > It's not like this has _ever_ worked differently from what it does now, so 
 > if you have one of the pre-MMC drives, the right answer right now (and 
 > always has been, I think) is that you need to be root to burn them.
 > 
 > I seriously doubt anybody _really_ cares.
 > 
 > That said, I don't think Peter Jones' patch is wrong.  I don't have any 
 > strong feelings about it - if people actually want this adn feels it 
 > improves the situation, why not? Although to actually make _sense_, we'd 
 > want to have distros that actually want to use the interface to 
 > auto-populate the command things or something.. In the absense of interest 
 > from distros, I don't think it is worth it.

With my distro vendor hat on, I'm interested in anything that makes
these bug reports go away.  I don't particularly care on the mechanism,
but we need *something*.

Should his patch be accepted, Peter would likely be the poor soul who gets
to implement the userspace bits for Fedora anyway, and I doubt he would've
hacked up the patch if he hadn't intended to do so :)

		Dave

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