From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263580AbUECDWd (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 May 2004 23:22:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263584AbUECDWd (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 May 2004 23:22:33 -0400 Received: from smtpq3.home.nl ([213.51.128.198]:8173 "EHLO smtpq3.home.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263580AbUECDWa (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 May 2004 23:22:30 -0400 Message-ID: <4095BAA3.3050000@keyaccess.nl> Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 05:21:07 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040117 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk CC: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] removal of legacy cdrom drivers (Re: [PATCH] mcdx.c insanity removal) References: <20040502024637.GV17014@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040503011629.GY17014@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040503011629.GY17014@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Neem contact op met support@home.nl voor meer informatie X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > Aiiee... > > You know, mcdx.c is like a roadkill - just can't stop looking at the thing. You should try sbpcd.c. I very enthousiastically opened that up one day, thinking it might be a nice little newbie project, then after 30 seconds gently closed it again and logged out and in of X to make very sure all traces of the terminal that showed it were gone. But... > How about removing all that stuff instead of keeping the known broken shit > in the tree? I do actually still use two of these drives. An actual soundblaster connected "sbpcd" drive (which sits in a 386, and given the fact that the new init-module-tools didn't compile against libc5 I haven't tested it modular there yet -- builtin it doesn't work) and a "Pro Audio Spectrum" connected "cdu31a" which does work. Most of the time. When the timing is just right, it even allows me to mount cd-roms: root@5vd5:~# uname -r 2.6.5 root@5vd5:~# lsmod | grep cdu31a cdu31a 24944 1 cdrom 34112 1 cdu31a root@5vd5:~# mount | grep cdrom /dev/sonycd on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,check=r) root@5vd5:~# ls /mnt/cdrom/ cd.id install.exe lecdemos readme.doc resource support > If you are OK with that (and nobody on l-k stands up and claims that they want > it alive and *claims* *that* *right* *fucking* *NOW*) I'll send you a patch > putting these buggers out of their misery. Hope this qualifies a bit. Must say that one of the things I appreciate about Linux is that all this old gunk I have lying about (in fact, still drag in from time to time) is actually supported. Or "supported". Would it be good to have a CONFIG_LEGACY alongside CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL and friends and dump all this crap into drivers/legacy/cdrom, where it wouldn't distract serious people? Rene.