Re: tlug: *kernel hacking* question (sort of)

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Chris Sekiya wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Chris Sekiya wrote:
> 
> > Which means that the driver doesn't implement that ioctl (take a look at
> > drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c).
> 
> Quick clarification: I mean that the low-level (i.e., hardware-specific)
> driver does not implement that ioctl.

well, I just checked ide-cd.c and sr_ioctl.c -- believe it or not, neither
the IDE nor the SCSI CDROM drivers support CDROM_DISC_STATUS or
CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS.  In fact, I can't find any linux CDROM drivers that
support those ioctls.  strange.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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