Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:20:06 GMT From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/138851: FreeBSD by default does not support ATAPI CDs Message-ID: <200909290020.n8T0K6F1079347@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/138851; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/138851: FreeBSD by default does not support ATAPI CDs Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:46:28 +0300 On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:05:40 +0200, Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: >>> Why should FreeBSD not by default include a technology that >>> is available since 7 years? >> >> The support for ATAPICAM is loadable as a kernel module too. >> We can probably add ATAPICAM to the default 'GENERIC' kernel >> config file. It may also be useful to patch cdrtools to try >> kldload-ing "atapicam.ko" when it detects that >> "dev.atapicam.0.%driver" is not available as a sysctl knob. > > If you believe that this is needed and helps, please help with > the implementation as I plan to pulish cdrtools-3.0-final in > areox. 2 weeks. Hi Joerg, I'll try to write a patch for the latest cdrtools-devel sources and email it to you asap. If it matches the preferred coding style of cdrtools and it successfully loads atapicam.ko on demand, it would be nice to see it included in this release.
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