From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161125AbWBNQiQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:38:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161130AbWBNQiP (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:38:15 -0500 Received: from mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de ([193.174.154.14]:47774 "EHLO mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161125AbWBNQiP (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:38:15 -0500 From: Joerg Schilling Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:35:32 +0100 To: schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de, dhazelton@enter.net Cc: seanlkml@sympatico.ca, sam@vilain.net, peter.read@gmail.com, mj@ucw.cz, matthias.andree@gmx.de, luke@dashjr.org, lkml@dervishd.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jim@why.dont.jablowme.net, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) Message-ID: <43F206D4.nailMWZJIUTRR@burner> References: <43EB7BBA.nailIFG412CGY@burner> <200602131749.46880.luke@dashjr.org> <43F1BB4C.nailMWZ118O17@burner> <200602140708.07746.dhazelton@enter.net> In-Reply-To: <200602140708.07746.dhazelton@enter.net> 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 "D. Hazelton" wrote: > As I'm sure you know, Linux is an Open Source operating system. If you need it > to support DMA in the ide-scsi system, then you are free to add said support. It seems that you did missunderstand Linux: I did send a fix for an important bug in 1997 and it was NOT integraded by the Linux kernel people. As long as the Linux project proves that Linux is not yet mature enough for being able to _really_ do what you propose, it makes no sense to waste time on LKML. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily