Re: OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog

[Gerd Knorr]

Joerg Schilling <schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> If you use /dev/ entries to directly address SCSI targets, then you 
> are relying on on assumptions that cannot be granted everywhere.
>
> Cdrecord is portable and this needs to implement a way that is portable 
> and does not rely on nonportable assumptions like yours.

Not really.  Yes, it runs on different operating systems.  But to send
the SCSI commands to the device you have OS-specific code in there,
simply because it's handled in different ways on Solaris / Linux /
whatever OS.  You could make the device addressing OS-specific as well
instead of expecting everyone in the world follow the Solaris model,
that would make life a bit easier for everyone involved.

Addressing IDE devices (try to get a real SCSI burner these days)
using scsi host+target+lun is sort-of silly IMHO ...

  Gerd
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