Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Feb 2006 08:46:33 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 01:04:51PM +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 03:56:54PM -0800, Greg KH 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. > > Except it does not provide the path to the device nodes themselves.
That is not what Bill asked for. So there is no "except" here :)
> You need to call udevinfo for that, or parse /dev/.udev/*. Do you > think it would be possible to have hotplug/udev/whatever exists in the > future to give that information back in the kernel and have it appear > in sysfs?
No. Why would it when it is very simple to query udevinfo for that?
thanks,
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