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

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 06:03:18PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > You just want the device naming to reflect that. The user should not
> > need to use /dev/hda, but /dev/cdrecorder or whatever. A real user would
> > likely be using k3b or something graphical though, and just click on his
> > Hitachi/Plextor/whatever burner. Perhaps some fancy udev rules could
> > help do this dynamically even.
> 
> 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.

  GUI programs tend to retrieve this kind of info form HAL
(http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fhal)

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Tomasz Torcz                "Funeral in the morning, IDE hacking
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