Re: [PATCH] cdrom sane fallback vs 2.4.20-pre1

Randy.Dunlap (rddunlap@osdl.org)
Tue, 13 Aug 2002 08:48:28 -0700 (PDT)


On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, James Bottomley wrote:

| > > - if (ret) {
| > > + if (ret && sense.sense_key==0x05 && sense.asc==0x20 && sense.ascq==0x00) {
| >
| > Do you really need to hardcode this values ?
|
| We have no #defines for the asc and ascq codes (they are interpreted in
| constants.c but the values are hardcoded in there too). There is a #define
| for sense_key 0x05 as ILLEGAL_REQUEST in scsi/scsi.h, but these #defines have
| annoyed a lot of people by being rather namespace polluting.

and that's precisely the wrong attitude IMO.

I was glad to see that Marcelo asked about the hardcoded values.
They hurt.

-- 
~Randy

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