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

[Phillip Susi]

Olivier Galibert wrote:
> Actually, since at that point in time HAL is the only way to do device
> discovery with the linux kernel, problems in HAL are problems in
> linux.  There is *no* other way than HAL to do the mapping between a
> point in the sysfs tree and a device node in /dev[1].

That information is available in /sys, which is how HAL discovers it.  
If you wanted to, you could bypass HAL and go directly to /sys to 
perform your own discovery.  Also HAL is not a part of the linux kernel, 
therefore a problem in HAL is NOT a problem in linux, even if there were 
no other way to get the information as you ( wrongly ) asserted. 


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