Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751427AbWBLTXb (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:23:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751428AbWBLTXb (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:23:31 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:50383 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751427AbWBLTXb (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:23:31 -0500 Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 08:46:33 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Olivier Galibert , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) Message-ID: <20060212164633.GA2941@kroah.com> References: <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> <43ED005F.5060804@tmr.com> <20060210235654.GA22512@kroah.com> <20060212120450.GA93069@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060212120450.GA93069@dspnet.fr.eu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1308 Lines: 31 On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 01:04:51PM +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 03:56:54PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 04:06:39PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > > > > > The kernel could provide a list of devices by category. It doesn't have > > > to name them, run scripts, give descriptions, or paint them blue. Just a > > > list of all block devices, tapes, by major/minor and category (ie. > > > block, optical, floppy) would give the application layer a chance to do > > > it's own interpretation. > > > > It does so today in sysfs, that is what it is there for. > > Except it does not provide the path to the device nodes themselves. That is not what Bill asked for. So there is no "except" here :) > You need to call udevinfo for that, or parse /dev/.udev/*. Do you > think it would be possible to have hotplug/udev/whatever exists in the > future to give that information back in the kernel and have it appear > in sysfs? No. Why would it when it is very simple to query udevinfo for that? thanks, greg k-h - 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/