Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751227AbWAYPTD (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:19:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751229AbWAYPTC (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:19:02 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:30887 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751227AbWAYPTB (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:19:01 -0500 Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:13:46 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Jens Axboe cc: Albert Cahalan , 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: <20060125144543.GY4212@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <787b0d920601241923k5cde2bfcs75b89360b8313b5b@mail.gmail.com> <20060125144543.GY4212@suse.de> 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: 1439 Lines: 34 > >- you don't need -scanbus. If >users think they do, it's either because Joerg brain washed them or >because they have been used to that bad interface since years ago when >it was unfortunately needed. Now you're unfair. -scanbus does a nice output of what cdwriters (and other capable devices) are present. For me, that lists the cd writer and a CF slot from the multitype usb flash reader. There's one kind of not-so-advanced linux newbies that just go to walmart, buy a computer and whack a linux system on it for fun, and they still don't know if their cdrom is at /dev/hdb or /dev/hdc. Looking for dmesg is usually a nightmare for them, and apart that -scanbus lists scsi host,id,lun instead of /dev/hd* (don't comment on this kthx), it is convenient for this sort of users to find out what's available. So, and what about that compactflash reader? It is subject to dynamic usb->scsi device association (depending on when you connect it, it may either become sda, or sdb, or sdc, etc.), and -scanbus yet again provides some way (albeit not useful, because it lists scsi,id,lun rather than /dev/sd* - don't comment either) to see where it actually is. 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/