Tomasz Torcz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > need to use /dev/hda, but /dev/cdrecorder or whatever. A real user would
> > > likely be using k3b or something graphical though, and just click on his
> > > Hitachi/Plextor/whatever burner. Perhaps some fancy udev rules could
> > > help do this dynamically even.
> >
> > Guess why cdrecord -scanbus is needed.
> >
> > It serves the need of GUI programs for cdrercord and allows them to retrieve
> > and list possible drives of interest in a platform independent way.
>
> GUI programs tend to retrieve this kind of info form HAL
> (http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fhal)
I am not sure what you like to tell with this.
Programs that depend on specific Linux behavior tend to be non-portable (see
e.g. nautilus on GNOME). Nautilus tries to get e.g. the drive write speeds
by reading /prov/scsi/******. Besides the fact that this is not available
elsewhere, it gives incorrect results because there are a lot of DVD writers
with broken firmware.
Cdrecord implements workarounds for this kind of problems and for this reason,
the most portable solution for a GUI is to use cdrecord to retrieve the
information.
Jörg
--
EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
[email protected] (uni)
[email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/
URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
