Messages in this thread | | | From | (bill davidsen) | Subject | Re: cdrecord hangs my computer | Date | 8 Dec 2003 16:21:54 GMT |
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In article <Pine.LNX.4.58.0312070812080.2057@home.osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
| In contrast, the old cdrecord interfaces are an UNBELIEVABLE PILE OF CRAP! | It's an interface that is based on some random hardware layout mechanism | that isn't even TRUE any more, and hasn't been true for a long time. It's | not helpful to the user, and it doesn't match how devices are accessed by | everything else on the system. | | It's bad from a technical standpoint (anybody who names a generic device | with a flat namespace is just basically clueless), and it's bad from a | usability standpoint. It has _zero_ redeeming qualities.
And the redeeming features of naming disks, CDs, and ide-floppy devices hda..hdx in an order depending on the loading order of the device drivers? -- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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