Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751173AbWAYOcg (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:32:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751178AbWAYOcf (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:32:35 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:18632 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751173AbWAYOcf (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:32:35 -0500 Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:26:52 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Albert Cahalan cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , rlrevell@joe-job.com, schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de, matthias.andree@gmx.de Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) In-Reply-To: <787b0d920601241923k5cde2bfcs75b89360b8313b5b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <787b0d920601241923k5cde2bfcs75b89360b8313b5b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 765 Lines: 23 >> Where is the difference between SG_IO-on-hdx and sg0? > >It's like the /dev/ttyS* and /dev/cua* situation, where >we also ended up with multiple device files. This is bad. > >SG_IO-on-hdx is modern. It properly associates everything >with one device, which you may name as desired. Let's analyze a case: if /dev/sg0 would always be associated with /dev/hda, /dev/sg1 always with /dev/hdb, no matter if there was actually a hda/sg0 device present in the system - would that simplify the problem? Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/