Greg KH <[email protected]> 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 -- 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/
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