Messages in this thread | | | From | Joerg Schilling <> | Date | Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:59:16 +0100 | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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"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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