From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267978AbUHKHeH (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 03:34:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267979AbUHKHeH (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 03:34:07 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:58764 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S267978AbUHKHeE (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 03:34:04 -0400 Subject: Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices From: Lee Revell To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Cc: linux-kernel In-Reply-To: References: <1092082920.5761.266.camel@cube> <1092099669.5759.283.camel@cube> <1092148392.5818.6.camel@mindpipe> <1092193620.784.29.camel@mindpipe> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Message-Id: <1092209667.1650.1.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 03:34:28 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 03:28, Måns Rullgård wrote: > Lee Revell writes: > > > > I sent this patch to the jackit-devel list, and everyone seems to think > > this would be a useful feature; had this been around a few years ago it > > certainly would have aided JACK's development. > > So why didn't anyone write it earlier? > Eh, possibly it's one of those things that's very useful in theory but that no one ever actually needed enough to write. JACK has been stable for a while now and has mechanisms for preventing buggy clients from locking the machine. Lee