(at http://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/) and one of the articles there is a short one
titled "2.6.8 and CD recording": http://lwn.net/Articles/98379/
Maybe it'll help explain some of the troubles with SCSI in 2.6.8(.1).
To sum the conclusiong from this article, it sounds to me like:
1. If Linus sticks with the SCSI command filter then he should update the permitted
commands and also add more context to decide if they are to be allowed (i.e. allow
certain commands on certain device only if more conditions are met, instead of just
checking "opened for (read|write) and command is X").
2. Whatever turns up some applications do "write" operations on descriptors opened
for "read only" and should be fixed.
3. Jorg Schilling might be right and direct CD device access should be restricted to
root (but that would be disappointing to admit).
Cheers,
--Amos
Rod Butcher wrote:
The issues of 2.6.8 causing trouble booting (apparently caused by changed SATA SCSI default), broken terminal and trouble cd burning reported by some, seems to point to things being tweaked / changed / corrected in this release rather than bugs - but I can't find release info - anybody know where it is, i.e. what changed / new default configurations, drivers / features etc ? Couldn't find it in the tarball or at kernel.org.
cheers
Rod
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Ken Caldwell wrote:
<quote who="Simon Wong">
On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 12:22, Rod Butcher wrote:
Having got 2.6.8 to boot by changing lilo root arg to /dev/sda1
Just to let you know, there's a problem with 2.6.8 that means that you can't write to CDs (not sure if this is the case when using scsi/scsi emulation or just when writing directly to ATAPI drives).
I can burn CDs just fine on this box which is running a 2.6.8 kernel.
/dev/cdrom is a symlink to /dev/scd0
I had to drop back to 2.6.7 for this reason so I thought I'd give you a heads up.
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