Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:15:53 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@deepcore.dk>, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c atapi-cd.h Message-ID: <33907.1195254953@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:11:09 MST." <473E238D.4030800@samsco.org>
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In message <473E238D.4030800@samsco.org>, Scott Long writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>> Well, there are two questions: media present (yes/no) and drive capable >>> of telling if media present without just trying to read it (yes/no). >> >> This risk reopening the old religious war if drivers should poll >> their drives to be up to date on media existence. > >This has nothing to do with polling, you're just trotting out an >irrelevant argument to divert attention. No, I merely pointed out that Nates worries had an obvious and widely accepted solution, which unfortunately is religiously unacceptable in certain parts of FreeBSD storage subsystems. For all I know, the problem sos@ has complained about has a solution that just needs somebody to change the relevant few lines of code. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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