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From: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 22:52:08 +0100
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Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
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Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:

> >Sorry, the way to access SCSI generic via /dev/hd* is deprecated. If ide-scsi
> >ir removed, then a clean and orthogonal way of accessing SCSI in a generic
> >way is removed from Linux. If Linux does nto care about orthogonality of 
> >interfaces, this is a problem of the people who are responbile for the related
> >interfaces.
> >
>
> So what you want is to be able to use write() on a <sg-compatible> device 
> rather than doing SG_IO ioctl() on <any> device?

This kind of disinformation is what constantly puts fuel into the fire....

Are you a victim of the firebugs in this list?

J?rg

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