Linux 2.5.43 out, no need for ide-scsi to burn CD's!

[Bob Raymond]

Direct quote from Linus himself:

A huge merging frenzy for the feature freeze, although I also spent a few
days getting rid of the need for ide-scsi.c and the SCSI layer to burn
CD-ROM's with the IDE driver (it still needs an update to cdrecord, I sent
those off to the maintainer).

Another quote:

Linus Torvalds <torvalds at home.transmeta.com>:
   o Merge with DRI CVS tree
   o When opening a CD-ROM device with O_NONBLOCK (for setup and ioctl),
     we should allow read-write accesses - it's used for control, not
     data.
   o Fix type - it used to be "__u8 short", which previous versions
   o "tv_sec" is unsigned long
   o Make ide-cd handle a REQ_BLOCK_PC packet command completion
     properly (which is to say the same as REQ_PC).
   o Block layer ioctl cleanups
   o Remove unused variable warning
   o Remove ide-cd reliance on "struct packet_struct", make it use the
     native "struct request" fields instead.
   o Oops, fix over-eager search-and-replace

I wonder if FreeBSD's "burncd" program might be ported over until 
cdrecord can get an update...

I do think I'll try this kernel out, as it seems as though there are 
plenty of XFS updates.


				Bob Raymond