On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Nigel Kukard wrote:
Peter, u want to port the patches to 2.6? I would be interested in helping but i hate duplicating effort!
Please go ahead and port them. (The mrw patch doesn't need porting of course. It's already included in 2.6.) I have the DVD writer in my "production" machine and don't want to upgrade it to 2.6 just yet.
Is there any reason why they not included in the mainline kernel tree? (just out of curiosity)
There are three patches to consider: * The dvd+rw patch written by Andy Polyakov. I've adapted it to 2.4.23 and the cdrw packet writing patch, but it needs further adaption to the 2.6 kernel. The patch doesn't support IDE drives in native mode yet. Also, it contains some #ifdefs that probably need some investigation and cleaning up before inclusion in 2.6. * The cdrw packet writing patch. Very unintrusive nowadays, but it would be nice to at least fix the problem that prevents it to work with ide-cd on some hardware before inclusion in 2.6. * The dvd-rw packet writing patch. Small patch. Depends on the cdrw packet writing code. Links to patches: http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/patches/packet/2.6/packet-2.6.4-rc2.patch... http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/patches/packet/2.4/extra/2.4.23/p00003_dv... http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/patches/packet/2.4/extra/2.4.23/p00004_dv... -- Peter Osterlund - petero2@telia.com http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340