Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

[Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>]

Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> wrote:

> Joerg Schilling schrieb am 2006-02-03:
>
> > libscg & cdrecord have been available long before Linux HAL was there.
>
> Perhaps libscg was too arcane and too badly integrated into Linux?

>From a cdrecord point of view, this seems to rather apply to Linux HAL.


> > Note that UNIX people usually believe that is is best practice to have this 
> > kind of software intergrated in the kernel (or at leat in the system). This is 
> > what FreeBSD did try for some years, and FreeBSD has failed with this attempt.
>
> So why would Linux want to have it in the kernel if it hasn't worked for
> FreeBSD either? Thanks for proving it doesn't belong there BTW.

Please try to understand my text before answering.

Jörg

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