Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:30:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: ken@kdm.org (Kenneth D. Merry) Cc: i.think@harrisburgacademy.org (i think), npp@swamp.dk (Nicolai Petri), multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DVD Support!!! Message-ID: <199910270730.JAA88477@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199910270659.AAA05992@panzer.kdm.org> from "Kenneth D. Merry" at "Oct 27, 1999 00:59:33 am"
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It seems Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > > Uhm, what kind of ioctl's are you going to use ?? the worm stuff is > > already here, so I hope you will be using those as that will make > > (again) a common interface to both the ATA and SCSI writers. > > I haven't been using any ioctls. DVD-RAM drives act like disks, more or > less. They don't need fixating, or anything like that. For drives that > need an interface more like CD-R's, cdrecord does the job fine. OK, I've no idea how the DVDRAM's work, but this way there is no conflict at least. > > > > As the author & maintainer of the ata driver I have some interest in > > > > this, and will follow things on the side, eventually bringing in > > > > support as needed.. > > > > > > Whatever we do, we should try to make sure we have a common set of ioctls > > > between the ATAPI and SCSI CD drivers. > > > > I've not looked at these patches or the linux stuff yet, but if the linux > > way is not too disgusting, I'd say we should use the same interface just > > to make our users life easier.. > > What do you mean by the "same"? With the same exact ioctl numbers, names > and everything? If the code is GPLed, that'll taint the kernel, won't it? Same names, the numbers etc may have to vary to avoid clashes (havn't checked) but the code that actually does the stuff wont be the same, so I dont see how it should bring in any GPL'd stuff, in fact I'll make damn sure it doesn't :) -Soren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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