Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 11:25:51 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> Cc: uwe@ptc.spbu.ru (Valeriy E. Ushakov), stable@FreeBSD.org, committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: I'll be rolling a 4.1.1 release on September 25th Message-ID: <200009181725.LAA09476@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <200009172038.WAA86368@freebsd.dk> References: <20000916174845.B28031@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> <200009172038.WAA86368@freebsd.dk>
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[ Sorry, this one jumped out at me.... ] > > I raised these issue before but got no reply. > > > > What are the reasons that VCD patch at http://people.freebsd.org/~luoqi/ > > is not commited? It's been around for almost two years now and people > > use it successfully. But reapplying the patch after each cvsup is > > kind of PITA. > > Because I dont favour the ioctl interface, its no longer needed... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > If /dev/acd*t* is going to be the answer then can this be stated > > directly, please, to cut the confusion. BTW, as I wrote just few days > > ago, acd*t* support was MFC'ed but relevant changes to MAKEDEV to > > create those devices were not. > > No its not, you simply open /dev/acdNc and set the blocksize to > what you need with the CDRIOCSETBLKSIZE ioctl and reads the blocks ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > woth a normal read from the device.... So, do you like ioctl(), or not? First you say it's not needed, then you say open a device and use ioctl() on it? You can't have it both ways. :) :) :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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