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

[Jens Axboe]

On Wed, Jan 25 2006, grundig@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> El Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:03:18 +0100,
> Joerg Schilling <schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
> 
> > Guess why cdrecord -scanbus is needed.
> > 
> > It serves the need of GUI programs for cdrercord and allows them to retrieve 
> > and list possible drives of interest in a platform independent way.
> 
> But this is not neccesary at all, since linux platform already
> provides ways to retrieve and list possible drives....

In fact it would be a _lot_ easier to just scan sysfs and do an inquiry
on potentially useful devices.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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