Rich Edelman wrote:

> Couple of things I want to mention here. If you happen to run 2.6, ide-scsi is 
> deprecated and warns you as being so. cdrecord has been patched to accept 
> dev=/dev/hdc or whatever your device may be, although the cdrecord author 
> doesn't like that way, and he lets you know that. Not entirely sure what the 
> earliest version of cdrecord that has that patch is, though. I'm running 
> 2.0a18, and I know 2.0a20 is the latest out there. It'll be in Gentoo's 
> portage tree, or if you happen to run SuSE I can point you to updated RPMs 
> that support it (as well as kernel 2.6.0 RPMs).

I read Linus's very strongly worded emails on the subject and I 
understand his reasoning for depreciating it. It seems it's bad from an 
engineer point of view.

Do you know if the depreciation affects usb-storage.o at all, though?