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Date:      Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:36:53 +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:  <34234.1195256213@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:21:25 MST." <473E25F5.1090805@samsco.org> 

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In message <473E25F5.1090805@samsco.org>, Scott Long writes:

>Ok, back on track.  What you want to do is make g_access largely 
>irrelevant, and have the _real_ access check done in g_start.  Fine.

Only for drive mechanisms that require out of band ioctls issued
over the inband channel in order to enable access to the media.

In other words CD drives.

>Is there any reason at all to make g_access not return success from
>now on? 

g_access is also responsible for checking read/writeability of the
media against the requested permissions.

>is what I'm arguing against; you're advocating a hack that works well
>enough for you and ignoring the larger architectural issue, which I
>think is important.  But anyways.

I think you misunderstand something here.

The only suggested change is that the printfs in geom gets supressed
for this one particular errno.

Nothing else changes as far as I know.

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