Jörg Schilling again... [Please reply CC: wdraxinger@darkstargames.de]

[Wolfgang Draxinger <wdraxinger@darkstargames.de>]

A few weeks ago I was updating cdrecord, and as ever when doing 
updates I'm RTFM (as any user should). Now while doing so I ran about 
a few lines, complainung about the Linux developers attitude to some 
patched, and so on, well, the address developers surely know what I 
mean. However I was disturbed by the fact, that despite a lot of 
flaming there only few code examples. Admittingly: Not getting back 
the SCSI error codes is a problem (it somehow reminds me on the GPL 
vs. BSD joke, where GPL people try to fetch any sort of error while 
BSD people just don't let errors happen), but communicating with HW 
it's surely a good idea to do as much error checking possible, as 
long it's for a sane reason and not just for the heck of it.

So there was this patch by Jörg Schilling, which IMHO inroduced a nice 
solution to the problem, yet keeping compatibility. The awnser by 
Douglas Gilbert seemed not so elegant to me. However I also know that 
you don't reject a patch without reason. And this is what I wasn't 
able to find on the archives.

Lately I had a few emails with Jörg and despite his contra Linux 
attitude (Ok, he likes OpenSolaris more than Linux, so let him do so; 
but instead of OpenSolaris, which tries to follow a pure academic 
style, Linux _just works_) I got no information of any real technical 
value.

Well I didn't cared about the so called issues, as I never had 
problems with cdrecord - ok the SUID bug required me to workaround, 
but nothing that a 5 line sh script and a "%cdrw  ALL=(ALL) 
NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/cdrecord.real" rule for sudo can't solve.

But a today's post on heise.de user forums really made me wonder, 
what's the problem of the guy is - on a pure technically base.

So what's the Linux Kernel developers' opinion on the lack of SCSI 
error code return, technically?

Happy coding

-- 
Wolfgang Draxinger
lead programmer - DARKSTARgames

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