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

On Wed, Jan 25 2006, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> > In fact it would be a _lot_ easier to just scan sysfs and do an inquiry
> > on potentially useful devices.
> 
> Hm. sysfs, procfs, udev, hotplug, netlink (for IPv6) - this all looks rather
> complicated and non-portable. I understand that applications that can just
> open every device and send SCSI INQUIRY might want to do that on Linux, too.

Certainly, I'm just suggesting a better way to do it on Linux.

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Jens Axboe

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