Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

[Joerg Schilling]

Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@xxxxxx> wrote:

> > Irrelevant to the discussion at hand, we are talking only about linux 
> > and what should be done on linux.
>
> Well, cdrecord relies on libscg, so in effect most of the portability code
> that is affected is in libscg; some of the real-time code however is
> specific to cdrecord.

This is correct, as (looking at other programs from cdrtools) cdrecord is the 
only program that needs realtime scheduling.


> So I'll repeat my question: is there anything that SG_IO to /dev/hd* (via
> ide-cd) cannot do that it can do via /dev/sg*? Device enumeration doesn't count.

But device enumeration is the central point when implementing -scanbus.

Note that all OS that I am aware of internally use a device enumeration scheme 
that is close to what libscg uses. This ie even true for Linux. If Linux did not
hide this information for /dev/hd* based fd's, I could implement an abstraction
layer.....

Jörg

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