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    SubjectRe: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
    On Sat, Feb 18 2006, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
    > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 01:37:15PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
    > > * Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> [2006-02-18 12:06]:
    > > > > It would be nice to have one place to go to find burners, and to have
    > > > > the model information in that place.
    > > > /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info
    > >
    > > Nice. Is that a stable interface people can rely on (seems this me it
    > > should rather be in sys)? I maintain a tool in Debian to rip/encode
    > > audio CDs with one command and we could use this file to find the CD
    > > interface if it's not specified by the user.
    >
    > I think it's pretty stable. Except for adding new capabilities it's been
    > unchanged since the 2.2.x days.
    >
    > Maybe Jens can comment more on it?

    Yeah it's stable, new entries have been added at the end if necessary. I
    don't necessarily think it's a super way to find these things out,
    sometimes older SCSI drives fail some of the mode sense / capability
    probing and don't show correct values. So one could do better in user
    space.

    But at least it's a generic way to see which devices have been
    registered as CDROM's, if that is the goal.

    --
    Jens Axboe

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