[libdvdcss-devel] [PATCH 1/7] Clean up and simplify raw device support.

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 08:44:13PM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> On 16 Nov, Diego Biurrun wrote :
> > Treat access to raw devices just like accessing any other device instead of
> > providing different semantics. libdvdcss now tries raw devices on all OSes
> > and bails out instead of continuing if accessing a raw device failed.
> 
> I'm not so sure about that, tbh.
> 
> Aren't you breaking some use cases?

Not sure which use cases you might mean.

Yes, this changes behavior, intentionally.  If raw device access is requested
and accessing the device fails, we bail out.  Previously libdvdcss would
continue.  However, I consider the new behavior more sensible.  If you want
raw access, silent fallback is no good IMO.

Diego