Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751333AbWAZNlS (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:41:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751340AbWAZNlR (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:41:17 -0500 Received: from mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de ([193.174.154.14]:14291 "EHLO mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751333AbWAZNlR (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:41:17 -0500 From: Joerg Schilling Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:39:52 +0100 To: nix@esperi.org.uk, matthias.andree@gmx.de Cc: schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de, rlrevell@joe-job.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de, grundig@teleline.es, axboe@suse.de, acahalan@gmail.com Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) Message-ID: <43D8D128.nailE2X11K6WU@burner> 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> <43D7C1DF.1070606@gmx.de> <878xt3rfjc.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> In-Reply-To: <878xt3rfjc.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> 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: 1102 Lines: 24 Nix wrote: > Applications (already) do this by asking HAL, which can be informed of > new devices in a variety of ways: the up-and-coming one is for the > kernel to notify udevd, following which a udev rule sends a dbus message > to HAL. Everything from the dbus message on up is cross-OS portable. > -scanbus is *totally* unnecessary. Interesting theory.... unfortunately this makes assumptions that cannot be proved. Where is this HAL available and more impportant: how is it related to generis transport and device independent SCSI? 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/