Support for Mount Rainier / Packet Writing
Hi all.
Now that feature freeze is just around the corner I would like to ask you if we will get support for packet writing in the 2.6/3.0 kernel. It would be especialy nice to have support for Mount Rainier which enables easy use of CD-RWs and that would help people (especially newbies) that use CD-RWs a lot.
There are some patches from Jens Axboe that are available here:
http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/patches/packet/2.5/
Are patches these OK for this or would support have to be completely rewriten?
Thanks in advance for any information about this important feature for many people.
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Well I have pressed the various legal departments in Mt-Rainer, and as long as we do not attempt to do non-native operations we should be clear.
Specifically legal, no license required :
MRW device and MRW media read/write is cool
MRW device format and create GAA, to create MRW from CDRW.
Specifically illegal, without a license agreement :
CDRW reading MRW media.
Building applications to stuff into the GAA to perform above.
These are key points, and the working group core has been blind cc'd.
Regards,
Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group
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Hi all.
Now that feature freeze is just around the corner I would like to ask you if we will get support for packet writing in the 2.6/3.0 kernel. It would be especialy nice to have support for Mount Rainier which enables easy use of CD-RWs and that would help people (especially newbies) that use CD-RWs a lot.
There are some patches from Jens Axboe that are available here:
http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/patches/packet/2.5/Are patches these OK for this or would support have to be completely rewriten?
Thanks in advance for any information about this important feature for many people.
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Hi all.
Now that feature freeze is just around the corner I would like to ask you if we will get support for packet writing in the 2.6/3.0 kernel. It would be especialy nice to have support for Mount Rainier which enables easy use of CD-RWs and that would help people (especially newbies) that use CD-RWs a lot.
There are some patches from Jens Axboe that are available here:
http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/patches/packet/2.5/
These are for CD-RW transparent writing, not cd-mrw.
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Are patches these OK for this or would support have to be completely rewriten?
I had patches for 2.4 that enable mt rainier support in ide-cd and sr, they need to be polished a bit and submitted. I don't view the feature freeze as a big problem here, it's just minor additions to the cd-rom driver so...
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These are for CD-RW transparent writing, not cd-mrw.
Thanks for clearing this up.
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I had patches for 2.4 that enable mt rainier support in ide-cd and sr, they need to be polished a bit and submitted. I don't view the feature freeze as a big problem here, it's just minor additions to the cd-rom driver so...
Great to hear this. I hope these patches get into final kernel. I know a lot of people would be very happy.
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