From: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:03:18 +0100
To: jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de, axboe@suse.de
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       matthias.andree@gmx.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
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Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:

> You just want the device naming to reflect that. The user should not
> need to use /dev/hda, but /dev/cdrecorder or whatever. A real user would
> likely be using k3b or something graphical though, and just click on his
> Hitachi/Plextor/whatever burner. Perhaps some fancy udev rules could
> help do this dynamically even.

Guess why cdrecord -scanbus is needed.

It serves the need of GUI programs for cdrercord and allows them to retrieve 
and list possible drives of interest in a platform independent way.

J?rg

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