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    SubjectRe: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
    Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

    > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 04:06:39PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
    > >
    > > The kernel could provide a list of devices by category. It doesn't have
    > > to name them, run scripts, give descriptions, or paint them blue. Just a
    > > list of all block devices, tapes, by major/minor and category (ie.
    > > block, optical, floppy) would give the application layer a chance to do
    > > it's own interpretation.
    >
    > It does so today in sysfs, that is what it is there for.

    Do you really whant libscg to open _every_ non-directory file under /sys?

    Jörg

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