From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267226AbUHTOO5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:14:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267256AbUHTOO5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:14:57 -0400 Received: from mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de ([193.174.154.14]:40930 "EHLO mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267439AbUHTOOv (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:14:51 -0400 From: Joerg Schilling Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:13:37 +0200 To: schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de, diablod3@gmail.com Cc: vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel@wildsau.enemy.org, fsteiner-mail@bio.ifi.lmu.de, b.zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices Message-ID: <41260711.nail8LDH1A5EV@burner> References: <200408191732.i7JHWSkL005470@laptop14.inf.utfsm.cl> <4125FE92.nail8LD4QVROS@burner> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: nail 11.2 8/15/04 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patrick McFarland wrote: > On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:37:22 +0200, Joerg Schilling > wrote: > > The Linux kernel is broken because it it did break existing interfaces - period. > > What you really meant to say is that they fixed a previously broken > interface so that it worked correctly; which just happened to break > your poorly written app. If you had any shread of self respect, you'd > silently fix cdrecord without a further mention of it here. You seem to fail to undrstand the word "pooly" :-( If applicable in this discussion then only to the way the Linux Kernel deals with interfaces..... Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) chars I am J"org Schilling URL: http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily