Joerg Schilling wrote:
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.
That's a fair question, which I asked in a seperate thread. Everything
in the system which looks like a block device, tape or optical device
looks like SCSI except ATAPI.
However, as my mother used to say "those are the conditions which
prevail," so perhaps it's time to accept it and move on.
--
-bill davidsen ([email protected])
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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