Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:14:22 +0100 | From | Matthias Andree <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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(stripped Lee from the Cc: list)
Jens Axboe schrieb am 2006-01-25:
> > Hm. sysfs, procfs, udev, hotplug, netlink (for IPv6) - this all looks rather > > complicated and non-portable. I understand that applications that can just > > open every device and send SCSI INQUIRY might want to do that on Linux, too. > > Certainly, I'm just suggesting a better way to do it on Linux.
Great. There's a better way, but it is not necessary. Let Linux-specific applications use it for their benefit, but a portable application isn't going that way because it's too much effort. If a simpler interface that can be shared with half a dozen other system exists, the portable application will use that and ignore better interfaces.
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