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Re: WG: AW: cdrecord problems on recent Linux versions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joerg Schilling)
Tue Feb 9 11:21:54 1999
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 17:19:28 +0100 (MET)
From: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de>
To: dledford@redhat.com, schilling@fokus.gmd.de
Cc: cdwrite@lists.debian.org, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
>From dledford@redhat.com Tue Feb 9 16:27:57 1999
>Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> >It sounds like it's better than the original sg. Why hasn't it been
>> >incoorporated into mainstream kernel?
>>
>> It seems that nobody (Linus included) is interested in SCSI on Linux.
>>
>> Heiko and I have made a new version more then 9 moths ago an nobody
>> was willing to incorporate this change.....
>FWIW, I do believe I have that version safely tucked away on my system waiting
>for some other things to happen. Currently, I'm working on some rather
>sweeping changes to some SCSI code, but it's all slated for 2.3 at best. When
>I get around to releasing something, I intend to include updated sg.c code.
>Of course, you're free to try and get the new sg.c code included yourself, but
>that would be difficult to do this late in the game for 2.2, so you would
>probably need to wait for 2.3 just like I am.
That's why we tried to include it in 2.1.xxx 6 months ago. Unfortunately, the only
pointer we had who was really willing to help was Eric Youngdale and
he had no time....
Jörg
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