Re: CD writing in future Linux try #2 [ was: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) ]

[Joerg Schilling]

Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So, let's meet somewhere inbetween.  Reserving a SCSI bus number for 
> ATAPI devices and generating ID/LUN for SG_IO devices isn't very 
> difficult and probably a good thing to have.  So, unfortunately, we 
> won't have pretty /dev/sg* for all SCSI-aware devices, but you only have 
> to scan limited number of devices - /dev/sg* and /dev/hd*.

libscg already has to deal with this kind of problems (see /dev/pg*).

You can't add work arounds ad nauseum.

Jörg

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