cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c atapi-cd.h

[Søren Schmidt]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <473E238D.4030800 at samsco.org>, Scott Long writes:
>   
>> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>     
>
>   
>>>> Well, there are two questions:  media present (yes/no) and drive capable
>>>> of telling if media present without just trying to read it (yes/no).
>>>>         
>>> This risk reopening the old religious war if drivers should poll
>>> their drives to be up to date on media existence.
>>>       
>> This has nothing to do with polling, you're just trotting out an 
>> irrelevant argument to divert attention.
>>     
>
> No, I merely pointed out that Nates worries had an obvious and widely
> accepted solution, which unfortunately is religiously unacceptable
> in certain parts of FreeBSD storage subsystems.
>
> For all I know, the problem sos@ has complained about has a solution
> that just needs somebody to change the relevant few lines of code.
>   
Exactly, and until that has been hashed out I rest my case, I have 
better things todo.

-Søren