To: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Cc: mrmacman_g4@mac.com, toon@hout.vanvergehaald.nl, ltd@cisco.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dtor_core@ameritech.net, 7eggert@gmx.de
Subject: Re: OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog
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From: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@suse.de>
Organization: SUSE Labs, Berlin
Date: 31 May 2005 18:59:01 +0200
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Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> writes:

> If you use /dev/ entries to directly address SCSI targets, then you 
> are relying on on assumptions that cannot be granted everywhere.
>
> Cdrecord is portable and this needs to implement a way that is portable 
> and does not rely on nonportable assumptions like yours.

Not really.  Yes, it runs on different operating systems.  But to send
the SCSI commands to the device you have OS-specific code in there,
simply because it's handled in different ways on Solaris / Linux /
whatever OS.  You could make the device addressing OS-specific as well
instead of expecting everyone in the world follow the Solaris model,
that would make life a bit easier for everyone involved.

Addressing IDE devices (try to get a real SCSI burner these days)
using scsi host+target+lun is sort-of silly IMHO ...

  Gerd
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