Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964870AbWAZUmq (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:42:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964871AbWAZUmq (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:42:46 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:669 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964870AbWAZUmp (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:42:45 -0500 Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:42:37 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Jens Axboe cc: Albert Cahalan , Linux Kernel Mailing List , rlrevell@joe-job.com, schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de, matthias.andree@gmx.de Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) In-Reply-To: <20060125153057.GG4212@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <787b0d920601241923k5cde2bfcs75b89360b8313b5b@mail.gmail.com> <20060125144543.GY4212@suse.de> <20060125153057.GG4212@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1234 Lines: 32 >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. And if you have multiple cdwriters? Then (cf. other posts) one has /dev/cdrecorder0 /dev/cdrecrder1, etc. To me, that's just as bad as having /dev/sg0 and /dev/sg1, because you don't have a clue at first sight what it maps to. "ls -l"? Sure, if cdrecorder0 was a symlink, but it does not work when it's not (= a block device in essence then). And I'm sure there's an analog program to "ls" to find what sg0 maps to. >If you are using cdrecord on the command line, you are by definition an >advanced user and know how to find out where that writer is. And GUIs could use arbitrary names like S:I:L. Ugly, but as long as it works... sigh. Jan Engelhardt -- - 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/