Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932076AbWAYRLp (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:11:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932077AbWAYRLp (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:11:45 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.21]:21683 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932076AbWAYRLo (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:11:44 -0500 X-Authenticated: #428038 Message-ID: <43D7B14D.7040802@gmx.de> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:11:41 +0100 From: Matthias Andree User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050715) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joerg Schilling CC: jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de, axboe@suse.de, rlrevell@joe-job.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acahalan@gmail.com Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) References: <787b0d920601241923k5cde2bfcs75b89360b8313b5b@mail.gmail.com> <20060125144543.GY4212@suse.de> <20060125153057.GG4212@suse.de> <43D7AF56.nailDFJ882IWI@burner> In-Reply-To: <43D7AF56.nailDFJ882IWI@burner> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1065 Lines: 23 Joerg Schilling wrote: > Jens Axboe 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. There are bugs in the implementation that prevent -scanbus from working properly, and they are not Linux bugs. Once -scanbus really scans all devices and skips those it cannot access (rather than quitting), you might have a point. - 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/