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SubjectRe: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
"D. Hazelton" <dhazelton@enter.net> wrote:

> On Monday 13 February 2006 08:24, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > 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.
>
> And look - ide-scsi is going away. So that "new" interface is disappearing.

Try to find out what's new and what's old.

Jörg

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