On Fri, May 27 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 27 May 2005, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > The simple fix is attached, making the driver start from ~0 and mask
> > bits the other direction would longer term be safer.
>
> As per Bartlomiej, I've not applied this, since the "don't do it unless
> you've written to it" fix from Jens went in. I assume CD-RW's know how to
> cache flush..
>
> That said, it does sound like the capabilities bitmap should be changed
> around to be the other way (either by starting at ~0, or, if the changes
> aren't too invasive, just change the semantics of it to be the sane way
> around ("drive can do this" rather than "drive can _not_ do this").
They should, it's always annoyed me because it's counter intuitive.
--
Jens Axboe
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