Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Feb 2006 18:36:43 +0100 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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Hello!
> This is why the mapping engine is in the Linux adoption part of > libscg. It maps the non-stable device <-> /dev/sg* relation to a > stable b,t,l address.
Nonsense. The b,t,l addresses are NOT stable (at least for transports where the kernel would have to make them up) unless you take an extra effort to make them stable (like I understand Solaris does). But you can use the same extra effort to make the /dev entries stable (like udev does).
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth COBOL -- Compiles Only Because Of Luck - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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