CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo
Jason Clinton
me at jasonclinton.com
Tue Dec 23 18:34:57 CST 2003
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?
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