Messages in this thread | | | From | Joerg Schilling <> | Date | Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:11:50 +0200 | Subject | Re: OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog |
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Gerd Knorr <kraxel@suse.de> wrote:
> Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> writes: > > > If you use /dev/ entries to directly address SCSI targets, then you > > are relying on on assumptions that cannot be granted everywhere. > > > > Cdrecord is portable and this needs to implement a way that is portable > > and does not rely on nonportable assumptions like yours. > > Not really. Yes, it runs on different operating systems. But to send > the SCSI commands to the device you have OS-specific code in there, > simply because it's handled in different ways on Solaris / Linux / > whatever OS. You could make the device addressing OS-specific as well > instead of expecting everyone in the world follow the Solaris model, > that would make life a bit easier for everyone involved.
This is not the Solaris model....
I did define this model 19 years ago when I did write the first Generic SCSI driver at all. Adaptec indepentently did develop ASPI 2 years later and did chose the same address model. Nearly all OS use this kind (or a very similar model) internaly inside the kernel or the basic SCSI address routines.
Jörg
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