Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:01:23 +0100 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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Hello!
> Sorry, the way to access SCSI generic via /dev/hd* is deprecated.
By whom?
> ir removed, then a clean and orthogonal way of accessing SCSI in a generic > way is removed from Linux. If Linux does nto care about orthogonality of > interfaces, this is a problem of the people who are responbile for the related > interfaces.
You open any SCSI device, you do SG_IO on it. What is non-orthogonal in that?
Yes, I agree with you that it's hard to do device discovery, but discovering devices is completely orthogonal to doing I/O in them and it's also not a problem specific to SCSI devices at all. Hence we want to find a general solution suitable for *all* devices and that's what sysfs, udev and HAL are for. They might have some rough edges yet, but they definitely solve the right problem.
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