Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750964AbWAYSWb (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:22:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750883AbWAYSWb (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:22:31 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.21]:17614 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750823AbWAYSWa (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:22:30 -0500 X-Authenticated: #428038 Message-ID: <43D7C1DF.1070606@gmx.de> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:22:23 +0100 From: Matthias Andree User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050715) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jens Axboe CC: grundig@teleline.es, Joerg Schilling , jengelh@linux01.gwdg.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> <20060125181847.b8ca4ceb.grundig@teleline.es> <20060125173127.GR4212@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20060125173127.GR4212@suse.de> 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: 600 Lines: 13 Jens Axboe wrote: > In fact it would be a _lot_ easier to just scan sysfs and do an inquiry > on potentially useful devices. Hm. sysfs, procfs, udev, hotplug, netlink (for IPv6) - this all looks rather complicated and non-portable. I understand that applications that can just open every device and send SCSI INQUIRY might want to do that on Linux, too. - 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/