Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:11:41 +0100 | From | Matthias Andree <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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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.
There are bugs in the implementation that prevent -scanbus from working properly, and they are not Linux bugs. Once -scanbus really scans all devices and skips those it cannot access (rather than quitting), you might have a point. - 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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