- 1
- I cannot recollect what kernel
version I looked at, then, presumably 1.2.13 and 1.3.34—the latest
kernel that I was indirectly involved in.
- 2
- The writing style is such that `we' is
used when (at least part of) the CDROM-device driver authors support
the idea, an `I' is used for personal opinions
- 3
- Is there software around that actually uses
these? I'd be interested!
- 4
- Personally, I think that SUN's approach to
mounting CDROMs is very good in origin: under Solaris a
volume-daemon automatically mounts a newly inserted CDROM under /cdrom/
< volume - name >/. In my opinion they should have pushed this
further and have every CDROM on the local area network be
mounted at the similar location, i.e., no matter in which particular
machine you insert a CDROM, it will always appear at the same
position in the directory tree, on every system. When I wanted to
implement such a user-program for LINUX, I came across the
differences in behavior of the various drivers, and the need for an
ioctl informing about media changes.