From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Programmingkid <programmingkidx@gmail.com>,
Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
qemu-devel qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Qemu-block <qemu-block@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block.c: fix real cdrom detection
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 17:48:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <558C22BD.1020404@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7B989F99-B95C-4D53-AA2D-29B87634D2BB@gmail.com>
On 25/06/2015 17:32, Programmingkid wrote:
>> I think we are going to have to agree to disagree. I have never
>> used the /dev/sr(0 | 1) devices and don't see how they would be
>> effected by this patch. Are you trying to say the /dev/sr(0 | 1)
>> devices *should* be handled by this patch?
>
> Thinking about your question some more, I see what you mean. On Linux
> /dev/sr0 refers to the cdrom drive. Also on Linux, the /dev/cdrom
> link refers to the /dev/sr0 device file. So if you just use
> /dev/cdrom, you are good.
Well, that's not how things work.
If you do things like that, you end up with a bunch of hacks, not with a
decent piece of software.
There is support for CD-ROM passthrough on Linux and FreeBSD in
block/raw-posix.c. Perhaps the FreeBSD support can be extended to OS X
as well.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-25 15:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-23 17:56 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block.c: fix real cdrom detection Programmingkid
2015-06-23 18:06 ` John Snow
2015-06-23 18:26 ` Programmingkid
2015-06-25 6:53 ` Markus Armbruster
2015-06-25 15:14 ` Programmingkid
2015-06-25 15:32 ` Programmingkid
2015-06-25 15:47 ` Programmingkid
2015-06-25 15:48 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-06-25 16:12 ` Laurent Vivier
2015-06-25 16:16 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-25 17:19 ` Laurent Vivier
2015-06-26 9:14 ` Laurent Vivier
2015-06-26 9:20 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-06-25 18:07 ` [Qemu-devel] " Programmingkid
2015-06-25 20:51 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-25 17:56 ` Programmingkid
2015-06-25 18:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-25 18:01 ` Peter Maydell
2015-06-28 23:43 ` Programmingkid
2015-06-29 0:29 ` Laurent Vivier
2015-06-29 0:56 ` Programmingkid
2015-06-29 3:01 ` Programmingkid
2015-06-29 10:36 ` Laurent Vivier
2015-06-25 17:57 ` Programmingkid
2015-06-25 13:31 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-06-25 15:11 ` Programmingkid
2015-06-26 9:34 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-06-26 15:50 ` Programmingkid
2015-06-26 20:01 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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