Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Feb 2006 19:04:21 +0100 | From | Olivier Galibert <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 10:53:50AM -0500, Jim Crilly wrote: > A bug in HAL is not a bug in Linux. If the HAL people need to make some > changes to their daemon to make it play nice with cdrecord and the like > that's fine, but telling people here makes no sense.
Actually, since at that point in time HAL is the only way to do device discovery with the linux kernel, problems in HAL are problems in linux. There is *no* other way than HAL to do the mapping between a point in the sysfs tree and a device node in /dev[1].
OG.
[1] Unless you consider stating every node in /dev acceptable just to find the correct major/minor. - 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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