Kyle Moffett wrote:
On Jan 30, 2006, at 17:52, Bill Davidsen wrote:
What is not easily available in Linux is a nice single place to find
out what mass storage (disk/optical/floppy/ZIP/LS120/tape) devices
are on the system, and what the system calls them.
Yes it is available, and a whole slew of GUI applications use it.
It's called "hal", or Hardware Abstraction Layer, and it has small
hooks into udev and a bit of sysfs code so that it has a list of all
devices of various types and knows what their associated udev-created
device nodes are. This means that I can configure udev to put my CD
drive on /dev/burner and correctly written GUI programs will just
find it and work.
I was really talking about something stable. HAL is an application, and
as such has to be changed avery time some developer has a bad dream and
changes the interface, moves a comtrol or report from /proc to /sys, or
otherwise requires a new way of interpreting the data. If you will, HAL
*in* the kernel where it must work.
--
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you
looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
-- Poul Anderson
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bill davidsen <[email protected]>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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