cdrecord fails on 2.6.8+ kernels [was thunderbird]

[Myles Green]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On 10/11/2004 05:15 PM, Collins Richey wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:53:28 -0400, Jerry McBride 
>> <mcbrides9 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sunday 10 October 2004 11:36 pm, Collins Richey wrote:
>>>
>>> ---snip---
>>>
>>>
>>>> A side note: kernel 2.6.8 ff has broken support for cdrecord.
>>>
>>>
>>> I had same problems with cdrecord and gcombust (thanks llama) and 
>>> after so
>>> extreme googling I found a fix....
>>>
>>> ---snip---
>>>
>>> Here's a patch to fix that and here it is...
>>> (I don't know what word wrap will do to this, so beware)
>>>
>>
>>
>> [ patch snipped ]
>>
>> I'm glad that this works for you on some vendor patched kernels. I've
> 
> 
> According to Linus, that's how he plans to run the 2.6.x show.
> 
> 

I'm not sure I understand, does this mean we need to stick with/revert 
to a 2.4.x system in order to burn discs?

TIA,
Myles

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