Messages in this thread | | | From | Joerg Schilling <> | Date | Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:24:59 +0100 | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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Christian Neumair <chris@gnome-de.org> wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 10.02.2006, 16:06 -0500 schrieb Bill Davidsen: > > The kernel could provide a list of devices by category. It doesn't have > > to name them, run scripts, give descriptions, or paint them blue. Just a > > list of all block devices, tapes, by major/minor and category (ie. > > block, optical, floppy) would give the application layer a chance to do > > it's own interpretation. > > Introducing more than interface for doing the same thing can be very > confusing and counter-productive. You'll create new, undocumented or > semi-documented interfaces which will lead to a dependency chaos.
So you concur with me that the fact that Linux introduced another interface for SCSI was onfusing and counter-productive.
> Some random script will work with kernel 2.6.11, 2.6.12 and 2.6.13, but > not 2.6.14 and later because a new device class was introduced and two > typos were fixed. Especially considering that the new linux development > model makes it likely that major changes go into micro releases, > stability and reliability will be a huge problem.
The main problem is that there is no grant that a new model will survive a time frame that makes sense to implement support.
> > Since -scanbus tells you a > > device is a CDrecorder, or something else, *any user* is likely to be > > able to tell it from DCD, CD-ROM, etc. Nice like of text for most devices... > > Well, "any user" just opens his Windows Explorer and takes a look at the > icon of his drive D:\\ to see whether it's a CD-ROM or DVD. It is > interesting to see professional programmers often argue that a
This is not true: a drive letter mapping does not need to exist on MS-WIN in order to be able to access it via ASPI or SPTI.
Jörg
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