Messages in this thread | | | From | Joerg Schilling <> | Date | Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:39:52 +0100 | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk> wrote:
> Applications (already) do this by asking HAL, which can be informed of > new devices in a variety of ways: the up-and-coming one is for the > kernel to notify udevd, following which a udev rule sends a dbus message > to HAL. Everything from the dbus message on up is cross-OS portable. > -scanbus is *totally* unnecessary.
Interesting theory.... unfortunately this makes assumptions that cannot be proved. Where is this HAL available and more impportant: how is it related to generis transport and device independent SCSI?
Jörg
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