Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932272AbWAZKIX (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 05:08:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932273AbWAZKIX (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 05:08:23 -0500 Received: from mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de ([193.174.154.14]:43487 "EHLO mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932272AbWAZKIW (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 05:08:22 -0500 From: Joerg Schilling Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:06:27 +0100 To: schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de, mrmacman_g4@mac.com Cc: rlrevell@joe-job.com, matthias.andree@gmx.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acahalan@gmail.com Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) Message-ID: <43D89F23.nailDTH5ZT0IY@burner> References: <787b0d920601241858w375a42efnc780f74b5c05e5d0@mail.gmail.com> <43D7A7F4.nailDE92K7TJI@burner> <8614E822-9ED1-4CB1-B8F0-7571D1A7767E@mac.com> <43D7B1E7.nailDFJ9MUZ5G@burner> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: nail 11.2 8/15/04 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1279 Lines: 34 Kyle Moffett wrote: > On Jan 25, 2006, at 12:14:15, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Incorrect, sorry. Do you really make Linux incompatible to the rest > > of the world? .. > >> 1 platform (Linux) _requires_ /dev/* access > > Your last line is wrong > > No, it is correct. We require /dev/* access. The fact that we > included /dev/sg* devices for /dev/[sh]d* was a mistake, and should > be fixed, but those are still /dev/* access. Looks like you missunderstood /dev/* here. Even with /dev/scg* on Solaris or with CAM on FreeBSD, you open a device. But this is not a /dev/ entry for a high level device like a disk, it is a SCSI nexus device that allows you to send SCSI commands on any SCSI transport. J?rg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J?rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily - 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/