El Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:13:46 +0100 (MET),
Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> escribió:
> There's one kind of not-so-advanced linux newbies that just go to walmart,
> buy a computer and whack a linux system on it for fun, and they still don't
> know if their cdrom is at /dev/hdb or /dev/hdc. Looking for dmesg is
> usually a nightmare for them, and apart that -scanbus lists scsi
> host,id,lun instead of /dev/hd* (don't comment on this kthx), it is
> convenient for this sort of users to find out what's available.
Wait - Looking at dmesg is a nightmare for newbies, but cdrecord -scanbus
is not?
Users should be show the available devices in a pretty GUI and for that to
be possible, the kernel needs to provide a unified way to show userspace
the available devices and notify them when they are added/removed - which
happens to be sysfs + udev etc.
libscg seems to want to replace the operative system for some tasks
in the name of cross-platform compatibility. Sorry, but libscg is
not the center of the world. It's fine that cdrecord does what
it does for the apps for all those platforms where -scanbus and friends
has sense, but linux just has SG_IO. libscg wanting to offer access
to the "transport layer below /dev/hd*" looks like a layering design
violation in operative systems like linux, but it is fine that cdrecord
has it because it _is_ neccesary in other operative system which do
things differently.
Using the native features of a platform is a Good Thing when writing
cross-platform software, ie: glib provides a "threading emulation" where
threads are not available, but it uses the native pthreads if it's
available. libscg wants to do everything everywhere, and that'd have
sense if SG_IO weren't able to do what cdrecord needs, but AFAIK from the
multiple flamewars I've seen, SG_IO does everything that cdrecord
needs. I've not had a problem with SG_IO in years...
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