kern/138851: FreeBSD by default does not support ATAPI CDs

[Patrick Lamaiziere]

The following reply was made to PR kern/138851; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Patrick Lamaiziere <patfbsd at davenulle.org>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc: Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de
Subject: Re: kern/138851: FreeBSD by default does not support ATAPI CDs
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:49:51 +0200

 Le Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:20:05 GMT,
 Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling):
 
 Hello,
 
 >  > The support for ATAPICAM is loadable as a kernel module too.  We
 >  > can probably add ATAPICAM to the default 'GENERIC' kernel config
 >  > file.  It may also be useful to patch cdrtools to try kldload-ing
 >  > "atapicam.ko" when it detects that "dev.atapicam.0.%driver" is not
 >  > available as a sysctl knob.
 >  
 >  If you believe that this is needed and helps, please help with the 
 >  implementation as I plan to pulish cdrtools-3.0-final in areox. 2
 > weeks. 
 
 IMHO that is not needed, just because it is not enough. On FreeBSD,
 cdrecord is not installed with the suid root bit and the user must also
 set the good properties on the devices xpt, pass and cd with devfs(8).
 
 Regards