raw device access under Linux

Michael T. Babcock mbabcock at web.fibrespeed.net
Tue Oct 23 11:25:50 CEST 2001


On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 11:14:53AM +0200, Samuel Hocevar wrote:
> > I've hacked raw device support into libdvdcss -- this avoids trashing the 
> > buffer cache with DVD data.  Any interest in seeing this in the CVS 
> > repository?
> 
>    Definitely! :-) Do you have a patch available somewhere?
 
Would there be any benefit along these lines to using the SCSI generic
drivers (/dev/sga, etc.)?
-- 
Michael




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