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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.
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