Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Feb 2006 03:05:49 -0500 (EST) | From | Daniel Barkalow <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 12:01:48AM -0500, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > > sysfs doesn't do quite that level of categorization; if it did, cdrom_id > > would be unnecessary. > > What? cdrom_id queries the device directly to get some specific > information about the device, much like any other type of device query > (lspci, lsusb, etc.) > > And yes, it would be nice if some of that information was also exported > through sysfs, and as always, patches are gladly accpeted.
Are there guidelines on having a generic cdrom export information from its block interface, rather than through its bus? I'm not finding any documentation of sys/block/, aside from that it exists.
> > It would be nice if you could do > > "grep 1 /sys/block/*/burns_cds" and get a list of all the block devices in > > your system that burn cds. (You can currently get a list of all of the > > removable block devices in your system, but not much else.) > > Well, I can see if they are disks or cdroms through sysfs quite easily, > removable or not, so you do get more information than you expect.
Ah, okay, this is in the current -rcs. I was only looking at 2.6.15 (and before), which is too old.
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