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

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 04:35:30PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I not entirely sure about having classes other than cdrom, just because 
> we already have CD, DVD, DVD-DL, and are about to add blue-ray and 
> HD-DVD, so if I can tell that it's a removable device which can read 
> CDs, the applications have a fighting chance to looking at the device to 
> see what it is. As a human I would like the model information because 
> the kernel has done the work, why should people have to chase it when it 
> could be in one place?

Sure, I don't object to that at all, as long as you can detect this kind
of information easily from within the kernel.

thanks,

greg k-h
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