So sprach Torrey Hoffman am Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:28:10AM -0700:
> Instead, talk to the distribution maintainers. They have the
That's what I'm also beginning to think (and already have said). From your
experience, we now know that Mandrake doesn't have to be 'converted' to
easily allow burning of CDs.
What about other popular *CURRENT* distributions, like SuSE 7.1, RedHat 7.1,
Progeny, etc.pp.? Do they also do something like Mandrake does? (Please
note that I did not mention Debian - anyone using Debian is surely not a
novice Linux user (I suppose))
If not, than it is, by all means, the fault of the *DISTRIBUTION*, and not
of the kernel maintainers! Given the 'glorious' example of Mandrake, we see
now that it *IS* possible even with the current choice of default settings
in the kernel to easily burn CDs.
> Anyone who has the "guts" to download and compile their own
> kernel can also be expected to read the documentation on how to
> get or keep their CD writer working.
Correct.
> Perhaps the only thing that the kernel developers *need* to do
> is add some documentation that helps people config their kernels
> correctly if they compile their own. Send a patch that adds the
> appropriate text to the kernel config.help, and perhaps an
> IDE-CDWriter.txt file in the /Documentation subdirectory.
That would be nice, indeed! If this 'IDE-CDWriter.txt' would mention
everything needed, all might be good and well. And I also suppose that Alan
would not have a problem including a 'lousy' text file even for 2.4 or 2.2,
would he? I can't think of a reason why it should be of any problem
whatsoever...
Alexander Skwar
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