Matthias Andree <[email protected]> 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.
Another problem is that it is hard to find whether a new feature in Linux will
still be present some time later.
If I would try to immediately add support for every new feature, I would have a
lot of dead code in my sources and would need to put a lot of effort in this
kind of coding. It seems that it makes sense to wait untill all major Linux
distributions made a new feature their default for some time.....
Jörg
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