From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263824AbUECSMS (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 14:12:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263820AbUECSKY (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 14:10:24 -0400 Received: from smtpq2.home.nl ([213.51.128.197]:52671 "EHLO smtpq2.home.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263826AbUECSKC (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 14:10:02 -0400 Message-ID: <40968A9F.6070608@keyaccess.nl> Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 20:08:31 +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> <4095BAA3.3050000@keyaccess.nl> <20040503055934.GA17014@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040503055934.GA17014@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: > OK... So we have > * potentially faulty mcdx (2.4, apparently either driver corrupts > memory in some conditions or isofs does the same for some IO failures - > need to take a look at that report more carefully). > * cdu31a (FUBAR driver, nasty to fix, "most of the time" works on > 2.6) > * sbpcd (at least two, both untested with 2.6) Okay, with a trivial hack to have the thing initialise when builtin, sbpcd does pretend to work: 3y25:~$ uname -r 2.6.5 3y25:~$ mount | grep cdrom /dev/sbpcd on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev) 3y25:~$ ls /mnt/cdrom/ cd.id* install.exe* lecdemos/ readme.doc* resource/ support/ However, any "cp" from cd-rom oopses the box. > Is anybody willing to fix those drivers? I was actually planning to get around to that at some point. Somewhat fond of this drive. As you say, driver is a disaster area; a few trivial fixes are not what it wants and at this point, fixing it properly would not be a trivial undertaking for me. Am also currently very busy elsewhere. Could it be kept around a bit? Rene.