Re: Bug: remounting CD-ROM drives does not lock/unlock drive

From: Rene Mayrhofer (rene.mayrhofer@vianova.at)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2000 - 11:04:17 EDT

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    Jens Axboe wrote:
    > > I always though about issuing some single call to lock or unlock the drive
    > > (e.g. setcd), but I never thought about this. What do I have to do to make
    > > this possible ? Could you give me some hint on how to allow root to unlock
    > > it in a clean way ? I wouldn't be very happy to apply special 'CD-ROM
    > > bootable interim hack' patches to each kernel I build for the project. Is
    > > there a way to do this general enough so that it can go into the main
    > > kernel (maybe another config option in /proc/sys/dev/cdrom if root should
    > > be allowed to unlock under all conditions) ?
    >
    > I don't think that allowing root to unlock a busy tray is that big a
    > deal, we have to assume he/she knows what they are doing anyway. But
    > for now, you can try this patch.
    Thank you, I will try it as soon as possible (hopefully tomorrow).

    Rene
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