[Linux-usb-users] USB DVD

[Bob Tennent]

Hi. The Asus S5N laptop system comes with an external CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive 
which is accessed by the laptop via a USB 2 connector.  I can play 
*unencrypted* DVDs (and presumably CDs) fine but, as of kernel 2.4.25, I 
can't play encrypted DVDs.  Here's what the ogle people say about it:

Linux has its strange special ioctl interface
to the CSS (the DVD encryption stuff) that is implemented for ide-cdrom and
ide-scsi.  It's really just ATAPI/SCSI commands though.
However the USB stack (and other communication stacks) do not implement 
this.
So in short Linux does not support USB DVD drives.

Can anyone tell me whether this situation has already changed in more recent 
kernels, is about to change in the foreseeable future, or is unlikely to 
change?

Bob T.
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