From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:44:47 +0200
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On Tuesday 31 January 2006 14:33, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 31. Januar 2006 13:24 schrieb jerome lacoste:
> > On 1/31/06, Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> > > J?rg Billeter <j@bitron.ch> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Users like to be able to get a list of posible targets for a single protocol.
> > 
> > The Linux users (I know of) like to be able to reference their drives
> > the way their Operating System names them.
> > 
> > If it's /dev/cdrw, then it's /dev/cdrw, not '1,0,0'.
> > 
> > Should we make a poll ?
> 
> It is entirely possible that the people you know are far from a representative
> sample. Most people likely prefer clicking on a description in a GUI. There
> needs to be a way to get this list and if possible it should not be specific
> to Linux.

Do we need to expose IDE master/slave, primary/secondary concepts in Linux?

So far I was perfectly happy with just /dev/hd[a-z][0-9]*
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