Re: Support for Mount Rainier / Packet Writing

Jens Axboe
2002-10-07T05:51:11Z

On Sun, Oct 06 2002, Jure Repinc wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Now that feature freeze is just around the corner I would like to ask
> you if we will get support for packet writing in the 2.6/3.0 kernel. It
> would be especialy nice to have support for Mount Rainier which enables
> easy use of CD-RWs and that would help people (especially newbies) that
> use CD-RWs a lot.
>
> There are some patches from Jens Axboe that are available here:
> http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/patches/packet/2.5/

These are for CD-RW transparent writing, not cd-mrw.

> Are patches these OK for this or would support have to be completely
> rewriten?

I had patches for 2.4 that enable mt rainier support in ide-cd and sr,
they need to be polished a bit and submitted. I don't view the feature
freeze as a big problem here, it's just minor additions to the cd-rom
driver so...

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Jens Axboe