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Date:      Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:05:29 +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:  <29786.1195236329@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:03:00 MST." <473DDB54.6050007@samsco.org> 

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In message <473DDB54.6050007@samsco.org>, Scott Long writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <473DD94D.8050605@samsco.org>, Scott Long writes:
>> 
>>>> The simplest way to do this, is probably to overload ENOENT or some
>>>> other currently undefined errno for this effect.
>>> But then why not have g_access be able to communicate the ability to 
>>> access the device independent from the ability to access the media?
>>> Seems like both of these questions are "access" questions.
>> 
>> Because that is a lot more work for no benefit I can see ?
>
>Says the man who complains to others about doing things the Right Way 
>and not adding hacks =-)  Oh well.

You didn't address the part about the benefit:  If the benefit is
the same for both approaches, I far prefer the simpler and less
intrusive option.

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