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SubjectRe: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
On 1/26/06, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:
> >> Udev interfaces that and can be set up so that it assigns
> >> /dev/cdrecorder0, 1, ... to evey recorder in the system, implementing
> >> the userspace interface.
> >
> >Problem is, udev doesn't. Or at least it varies from distribution to
> >distribution. For instance recent gentoo creates /dev/cdrom*,
> >/dev/cdrw*, /dev/dvd*, /dev/dvdrw*. Fedora core 3 creates
> >/dev/cdrom*, /dev/cdwriter*, /dev/dvd*, /dev/dvdwriter*. I guess from
> >your email that SuSE does /dev/cdrecorder*. And I'm not able to
> >guess what fedora core 5, mandrake, debian, slackware and infinite
> >number of derivatives do.
>

The above can be standatrisized (sp?). How is it different from notmal
filesystem naming layout?

> Plus you have to think about systems not using udev at all.
> Cheers, chaos preprogrammed.
>

We might want to add a new class in sysfs, except we do not allow a
device to belong to several classes (we require splittiing it into
sub-devices which is not entirely correct in case of DVD+-RW which
should belong to classes CD, DVD, DVD-RW, OTOH maybe it is sane to
treat it as 3 different sub-devices in one
physical package).

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Dmitry
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