Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:24:09 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 02:07:53PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > 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).
I don't think there is a reason for a new class. Maybe some attributes, but not a class - they're all the same kind of devices, only plain CD-ROMs can only write CDs at speed 0 ;).
-- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR - 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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