Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:35:16 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>, Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>,
       Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
       Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
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On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 04:35:30PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I not entirely sure about having classes other than cdrom, just because 
> we already have CD, DVD, DVD-DL, and are about to add blue-ray and 
> HD-DVD, so if I can tell that it's a removable device which can read 
> CDs, the applications have a fighting chance to looking at the device to 
> see what it is. As a human I would like the model information because 
> the kernel has done the work, why should people have to chase it when it 
> could be in one place?

Sure, I don't object to that at all, as long as you can detect this kind
of information easily from within the kernel.

thanks,

greg k-h
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