acd and iostat [was Re: FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs]

[Ian Smith]

On Thu, 3 May 2007, Scott Long wrote:

 > Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
[..]
 > > PS: why is iostat(1) not working for acd(4) devices?
 > 
 > Because acd doesn't make use of the standard kernel facilities that make
 > iostat work.  It's a deliberate choice by the driver author.

Same for systat -vm of course.  I guess this was a regression, as acdX
used to show up fine in 4.X in {sys,io}stat, whether or not also showing
cdX (with atapicam).  I often used to watch it while testing burned CDs. 

Was that because of an API change to said kernel facilities, perhaps?

Cheers, Ian