Messages in this thread | | | From | Joerg Schilling <> | Date | Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:15:36 +0100 | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
| |
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> wrote:
> > For this reason, it is bejond the scope of the Linux kernel team to decide on > > this abstraction layer. The Linux kernel team just need to take the current > > libscg interface as given as _this_ _is_ the way to do best abstraction. > > This is ridiculous. The abstraction (SG_IO on an open special file) is > in the kernel. Feel free to stack as many layers on top as you wish, but > the kernel isn't going to bend just to support a random abstraction > library that cannot achieve its goals in its current form anyways.
Try to inform yourself on the difference between an IOCTL and a /dev/ entry.
Jörg
-- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily - 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/
| |