[PATCH 0/1] LP#397734 -- disable cdrom tray lock

[Andy Whitcroft]

There has been much discussion on what the correct behaviour is when
hitting the CDROM eject button.  Although this button is intended to only
allow eject when the media is not busy, the common use cases effectivly
render this button inoperative as the media is always busy.  Userspace has
been modified to turn off the lock for mounted filesystems based on the
assumption that read-only filesystems cannot be dammaged by loss, cirtinly
less so that the effects of ripping out a live USB based filesystem.
The above modification cannot help with media players which directly
open /dev/sr0 and access the raw stream.  This means that behavour is
now inconsistant depending on what you use the disk for.  For filesystem
mounts eject will pop the drive, for music etc it will not.

We have been requested to default tray locking off to ensure that the
locking is off consistantly, and that we get a consistant behaviour.
This means that the disk _will_ eject on command, in use or not.
Userspace will be modified to track the loss of the media and unmount it
automatically.  Media players will presumably error and stop.  Work will
also be done to fix disk burning software to ensure they explicitly lock
the tray to prevent loss of data.

For Lucid.

-apw

Andy Whitcroft (1):
  UBUNTU: SAUCE: cdrom -- default to not locking the tray when in use

 drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)