Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Feb 2006 18:37:44 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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>>>> >>> But you need to open the correct /dev/sg[0-9] too, don't you? >>> (otherwise cdrecord would set the jukebox on fire) >> >> This is why the mapping engine is in the Linux adoption part of >> libscg. It maps the non-stable device <-> /dev/sg* relation to a >> stable b,t,l address. > >Well, the b,t,l mapping, judging from libscg code, is as stable as the >ordering of the device nodes themselves, so it is not clear what the >advantage would be other than getting a uniform and artificial b,t,l mapping. > >If hotplugging shuffles /dev/sg* between running $APPLICATION -scanbus and >$APPLICATION -dowhatever, the b,t,l will change as well. >
Don't interrupt my (trick) thread (as explained before in private). Thank you.
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