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

Frank Steiner
2004-08-19T14:33:33Z

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?

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