Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:09:36 +1100 | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) | From | Alexander Samad <> |
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On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 04:29:37PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > 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.
off the top of my head the standard C library been fairly stable
> > > > > 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. > > J?rg > > -- > EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J?rg 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/ > [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |