Messages in this thread | | | From | "D. Hazelton" <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) | Date | Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:03:07 -0500 |
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On Monday 13 February 2006 17:14, Nix wrote: > On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Joerg Schilling stated: > > Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 04:06:39PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> > 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. > >> > >> It does so today in sysfs, that is what it is there for. > > > > Do you really whant libscg to open _every_ non-directory file under /sys? > > Well, that would be overkill, but iterating across, say, > /sys/class/scsi_device seems like it would be a good idea. > > (I doubt libscg would ever be interested in the stuff in most of the > other directories: things like /dev/mem are not SCSI devices and never > will be, and /sys/class/scsi_device contains *everything* Linux > considers a SCSI device, no matter what transport it is on, SATA and > all. However, I don't know if it handles IDE devices that you can SG_IO > to because I don't have any such here. Anyone know?)
Not on my system, and I have a DVD-ROM and a CDRW drive attached, both of which are capable of SG_IO.
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