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

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

Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 04:06:39PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > 
> > The kernel could provide a list of devices by category. It doesn't have 
> > to name them, run scripts, give descriptions, or paint them blue. Just a 
> > list of all block devices, tapes, by major/minor and category (ie. 
> > block, optical, floppy) would give the application layer a chance to do 
> > it's own interpretation.
>
> It does so today in sysfs, that is what it is there for.

Do you really whant libscg to open _every_ non-directory file under /sys?

Jörg

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