Phillip Susi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > I am sorry to see your recent dicussion style.
> >
> > I was asking a question and I did get a completely useless answer as
> > any person who has some basic know how Linux SCSI would know that
> > doing a stat("/dev/sg*", ...) will not return anything useful.
> >
>
> It certainly does return something useful, just not what you are looking
> for. It does not return information that allows you to cleanly build
> your bus:device:lun view of the world, but it does return sufficient
> information to enumerate and communicate with all devices in the
> system. Is that not sufficient to be able to implement cdrecord? If it
> is, then the real issue here is that you want Linux to conform to the
> bus:device:lun world view, which it seems many people do not wish to do.
It does not allow libscg to find all devices.
> Maybe it would be more constructive if you were to make a good argument
> for why the bus:device:lun view is better than /dev/*, but right now it
> seems to me that they are just two different ways of doing the same
> thing, and you prefer one way while the rest of the Linux developers
> prefer the other.
It would help if someone would give arguments why Linux does treat all
SCSI devices equal, except for ATAPI transport based ones.
Jörg
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