On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 15:57, Søren Schmidt wrote: > Chuck Swiger wrote: > > Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > > >> On Thursday 14 October 2004 12:59, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > >> > >>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:51:41PM +0200, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > >>> [ ...well made userland point snipped... ] > >>> Unfortunately, due to the way ata and atapicam are implemented right > >>> now, > >>> this is unlikely to happen soon. > >> > >> > >> Easy workaround: Put atapicam into GENERIC. I'm waiting for that to > >> happen ever since atapicam entered the tree. > > > > > > I'd strongly agree, unless there is a major downside to doing so. > > > > (Disclaimer: Having ATAPICAM in GENERIC would reduce my email support > > burden for the dvd+rw-tools port by a noticable fraction. :-) > > But will do the opposite to my mailbox, and I *dont* support atapicam, > so I think its a bad idea, besides I waste enough time as is, thanks... > Since I was one of the people responsible for using up space in Søren's mailbox in the past, I felt obliged to chime in -- my laptop (AVERATEC 3150H) was complaining about ad0 and would eventually hang if it had 'device atapicam'. I have disabled it and lived happily thereafter. To be fair, I do not know if it still is the case. If there is enough interest out there, I can plug it back in. However, I think this would be something to consider before making it part of GENERIC kernel. FWIW. --- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko.Received on Fri Oct 15 2004 - 12:36:21 UTC
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