Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932310AbWAZM3e (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:29:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932308AbWAZM3e (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:29:34 -0500 Received: from mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de ([193.174.154.14]:8324 "EHLO mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932310AbWAZM3d (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:29:33 -0500 From: Joerg Schilling Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:27:59 +0100 To: schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de, matthias.andree@gmx.de Cc: mrmacman_g4@mac.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acahalan@gmail.com Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) Message-ID: <43D8C04F.nailE1C2X9KNC@burner> References: <787b0d920601241858w375a42efnc780f74b5c05e5d0@mail.gmail.com> <43D7A7F4.nailDE92K7TJI@burner> <8614E822-9ED1-4CB1-B8F0-7571D1A7767E@mac.com> <43D7B1E7.nailDFJ9MUZ5G@burner> <20060125230850.GA2137@merlin.emma.line.org> In-Reply-To: <20060125230850.GA2137@merlin.emma.line.org> 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: 1364 Lines: 34 Matthias Andree wrote: > Joerg Schilling schrieb am 2006-01-25: > > > > You are perfectly free to adjust your compatibility layer accordingly. > > > > The Linux Kernel fols unfortunately artificially hides information for the > > /dev/hd* interface making exactly this compatibility impossible. > > What information is actually missing? You keep talking about phantoms, > without naming them. Again: device enumeration doesn't count, libscg > already does that. I am not talking about phantoms, I am always requestung the same things. It only seems that people here ignore these issues. The only integrative (and this useful for libscg) interface on Linux is /dev/sg* /dev/hd* may look nice if you only look skin-deep How do you e.g. like send SCSI commands to ATAPI tape drives on Linux? 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/