Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:20:02 -0500 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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Kyle Moffett wrote:
> On Jan 30, 2006, at 17:52, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> What is not easily available in Linux is a nice single place to find >> out what mass storage (disk/optical/floppy/ZIP/LS120/tape) devices >> are on the system, and what the system calls them. > > > Yes it is available, and a whole slew of GUI applications use it. > It's called "hal", or Hardware Abstraction Layer, and it has small > hooks into udev and a bit of sysfs code so that it has a list of all > devices of various types and knows what their associated udev-created > device nodes are. This means that I can configure udev to put my CD > drive on /dev/burner and correctly written GUI programs will just > find it and work.
I was really talking about something stable. HAL is an application, and as such has to be changed avery time some developer has a bad dream and changes the interface, moves a comtrol or report from /proc to /sys, or otherwise requires a new way of interpreting the data. If you will, HAL *in* the kernel where it must work.
> -- > I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you > looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. > -- Poul Anderson
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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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