Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:00:14 +0100 | From | Tomasz Torcz <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 06:03:18PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote: > > > You just want the device naming to reflect that. The user should not > > need to use /dev/hda, but /dev/cdrecorder or whatever. A real user would > > likely be using k3b or something graphical though, and just click on his > > Hitachi/Plextor/whatever burner. Perhaps some fancy udev rules could > > help do this dynamically even. > > Guess why cdrecord -scanbus is needed. > > It serves the need of GUI programs for cdrercord and allows them to retrieve > and list possible drives of interest in a platform independent way.
GUI programs tend to retrieve this kind of info form HAL (http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fhal)
-- Tomasz Torcz "Funeral in the morning, IDE hacking zdzichu@irc.-nie.spam-.pl in the afternoon and evening." - Alan Cox
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