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

On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 10:53:50AM -0500, Jim Crilly wrote:
> A bug in HAL is not a bug in Linux. If the HAL people need to make some
> changes to their daemon to make it play nice with cdrecord and the like
> that's fine, but telling people here makes no sense.

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].

  OG.

[1] Unless you consider stating every node in /dev acceptable just to
find the correct major/minor.
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