Messages in this thread | | | From | Joerg Schilling <> | Date | Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:29:37 +0100 | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz> wrote:
> Hello! > > > libscg abstracts from a kernel specific transport and allows to write OS > > independent applications that rely in generic SCSI transport. > > > > 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. > > Do you really believe that libscg is the only way in the world how to > access SCSI devices? > > How can you be so sure that the abstraction you have chosen is the only > possible one? > > If an answer to either of this questions is NO, why do you insist on > everybody bending their rules to suit your model?
Name me any other lib that is as OS independent and as clean/stable as libscg is. Note that the interface from libscg did not really change since August 1986.
> > The Linux kernel team has the freedom to boycott portable user space SCSI > > applications or to support them. > > That's really an interesting view ... if anybody is boycotting anybody, > then it's clearly you, because you refuse to extend libscg to support > the Linux model, although it's clearly possible.
Looks like you did not follow the discussion :-(
I am constantly working on better support for Linux while the Linux kernel folks do not even fix obvious bugs.
Jörg
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