Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices

Jens Axboe
2004-08-10T15:36:45Z

On Tue, Aug 10 2004, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-10 16:49:47 +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
> wrote in message <20040810164947.7f363529.skraw@ithnet.com>:
> > On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:27:13 +0200 (CEST)
> > Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > - These distributions do not talk with the original Authors which
> > > demonstrates that they do not like to benefit from OSS.
> >
> > Really, have you listened to yourself lately: "Commercial distros do not like
> > to benefit from OSS." ???
> > How do you define their primary goal, arguing with Joerg Schilling, or what?
>
> IIRC Jörg complained some hundred emails ago that they (the SuSE
> people) don't care to try to get their patches upstream, back to Jörg,
> or discussing their changes with him (but instead hacking cdrecord the
> way it fits best for them).

Don't be naive. How do you discuss changes with him? The one patch I did
create against the SUSE cdrecord for the one shipped with SL9.1 adds a
note to use ATA over ATAPI since that is preferred, and it kills the
silly open-by-devname warnings that are extremely confusing to users. I
did send that back to Joerg, to no avail.

> While they (and any other distro's people and anybody else) may
> actually hack the code to no end, I consider it being good habit to

By far the largest modification is dvd support, which we of course need
to ship. The rest is really minor stuff.

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Jens Axboe