stable 2.6.9 ?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

Dang!  Who thought that up?   I'm opposed to it to (as if anyone cares).

We've got about 200 machines in labs, ALL of them have CD burners, and
only two people know the root PW.  What do you suggest we would do
with a kernel like that???

++ kevin



On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:28:50 -0400, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 11:32:51PM +0200, Klaus-Peter Schrage took 27 lines to write:
> > Kurt Wall wrote:
> 
> [/me clueless about cdrecord problem]
> 
> > >>Has anybody already found out whether Linus has changed his attitude
> > >>towards normal users burning cds, which led to a really bad issue with
> > >>2.6.8*?
> > >
> > >
> > >I must have missed that issue.
> >
> > I (and myriads of others) only could burn cds as root, and the kernel
> > gurus meant this to be a feature, not a bug. As Collins has pointed out,
> > J?rg Schilling, the author of cdrecord, strongly opposed to that attitude.
> 
> Ah, now I remember. Thanks, Klaus. As far as I know and can tell, the
> problem remains.
> 
> Kurt
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