Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:05:28 +0100 (CET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cdrecord for ATAPI burners available.. Message-ID: <200203201005.g2KA5Sa15765@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <1016574782.2672.27.camel@hollin.btc.adaptec.com>
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It seems Scott Long wrote: > In the past you've objected to ATAPI-CAM on two grounds, fear that it > won't be done right, and fear that it will add more work to yourself. I > think that there are enough highly intelligent people interested in the > project that the first issue can be put to rest. While I highly respect > what you have done with this port, I think that you are eroding your > defense of the second issue. I fail to see how porting (and presumably > maintaining) a multitude of CD utilities will be less work for you than > allowing someone to put a CAM hook into your acd driver, and then > sitting back as they maintain that work. I released these mods (which was actually done over a year ago on a contract, but I couldnt release them until now) just so people experiencing problems could try that route. This could reveal the problems that some has with burncd, and which I would like to get fixed, even if the 'pure' ATAPI driver suite is to be replaced with CAM (I have a use for it at least without CAM).. I was trying to be helpfull here, so please take a deep breath before accusing me of anything else.. > If you object to ATAPI-CAM, just come out and and admit it. This isn't > a battle of egos of wills, and nobody is trying to discredit your work. > You are a valuable member of the FreeBSD community, and everybody > appreciates the work that you have put it. ATAPI-CAM is not meant to > replace you, since we still need your expertise in every other part of > the ATA/ATAPI/IDE framework. It is meant to help users who want a > simple way to do cool stuff with their ATAPI devices. I have said repeatedly on these lists, that I have no problem with CAM as long as the integration is done in a sensible way, and that I am not the one to maintain the CAM translation layer. I was under the impression that Justin was working with you guys on how to do this right from the CAM perspective, at least that was the way I interpreted his mail to this list. I'm not the one slowing things down here, so please point your flak in another direction :) However, the 'pure' ATAPI drivers will continue to live since I have uses for it, if its not to be in the official sources, thats something I'll have to consider how to handle then... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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