On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, [email protected] wrote:
> It's too "much effort"? Basically, what linux is asking is that cdrecord
> stop wasting efforts trying to implement its own solution. Linux is
> asking cdrecord to use SG_IO and leave device discovery and data transport
> issues to the platform.
>
> Linux doesn't even need -scanbus for example. You could compile out that
> code. Device discovery is done by the platform - I find _scary_ that other
> "modern" operative systems don't have a way of providing device discovery
> services in 2006 and that a external app is needed but hey, people is free
> to design their operative system as they like. Linux provides it and leaves
> Schilling time to focus in other things. In my book, that's not "too much
> effort", is "less effort". If someone bugs you because SG_IO doesn't work
> just tell him to report the problem here - in fact cdrecord already has a
> "friendly" warning about "linux-2.5 and newer". The cdrecord low level
> scsi driver for SG_IO should be much simpler than all the others...
Well, you need to implement 30 (or so) platform-specific ways to get a
list of devices, and portable applications aren't going to do that. To
make it explicit: no way. It is a maintenance nightmare, 30 lowly-tested
pieces of code, too.
This sounds like a huge difference, but I don't believe it actually is.
Jörg is trying to fight the system rather than stop complaining to users
about their using /dev/hd*. The scanning code is there and can be made
working with little effort probably.
--
Matthias Andree
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