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Re: RFC: Adding CDROM_GET_CAPABILITY to Lenny's Xen blkfront driver



No objections or just no interest either way?

On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 08:40 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> Does anyone have any objections to pushing the attached patch (+second
> cleanup patch) to the Lenny branch? It adds support for the
> CDROM_GET_CAPABILITY ioctl to the Xen block device driver.
> 
> It's not super critical or anything and is possibly a bit of a stretch
> for the stable update policy but let me explain my reason for asking...
> I've recently been looking at producing (Unofficial) Xen compatible
> Lenny install isos and the lack of this ioctl means I need some ugly
> hacks in the udev and partman .udebs, if I can add the kernel side now
> then if/when the installer is refreshed those hacks can be dropped.
> 
> FWIW, I think the patch itself is pretty harmless...
> 
> Ian.
> 
-- 
Ian Campbell

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