Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 17:06:06 -0400 From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org> To: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: please do not close the drive tray automatically. (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c) Message-ID: <239270000.979074366@grolsch.ai> In-Reply-To: <200101081758.SAA68334@freebsd.dk>
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--On Monday, January 08, 2001 18:58:54 +0100 Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> wrote: > It seems Mike Smith wrote: >> Closing the drive tray at what is effectively a random time violates the >> user interface model for the CDROM. I think it's a stunningly stupid >> idea (for the damage reasons that Matt gives as well as the semantic >> violations). >> >> It's bad enough that some drives close as part of the reset cycle; doing >> it on first open would definitely be Not On. Opening/closing the tray >> is part of the media exchange cycle; in much the same way that a tape >> drive can eject a tape, but requires the operator to explicitly load >> one. > > OK OK, I'll rip it out again, as soon as my -current box allows me > to actually do something, MFC will follow in a timely manner.... Nothing personal, but had you not done an immediate MFC you could have prevented this gratuitous flip-flop in -STABLE. Why did you do an immediate MFC? Cheers, Jeroen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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