On Jun 25, 2015, at 11:48 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > On 25/06/2015 17:32, Programmingkid wrote: >>> I think we are going to have to agree to disagree. I have never >>> used the /dev/sr(0 | 1) devices and don't see how they would be >>> effected by this patch. Are you trying to say the /dev/sr(0 | 1) >>> devices *should* be handled by this patch? >> >> Thinking about your question some more, I see what you mean. On Linux >> /dev/sr0 refers to the cdrom drive. Also on Linux, the /dev/cdrom >> link refers to the /dev/sr0 device file. So if you just use >> /dev/cdrom, you are good. > > Well, that's not how things work. > > If you do things like that, you end up with a bunch of hacks, not with a > decent piece of software. > > There is support for CD-ROM passthrough on Linux and FreeBSD in > block/raw-posix.c. Perhaps the FreeBSD support can be extended to OS X > as well.
Could you be more specific? A name of a function would be great.
