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

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 01:37:15PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> [2006-02-18 12:06]:
> > > It would be nice to have one place to go to find burners, and to have
> > > the model information in that place.
> > /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info
> 
> Nice.  Is that a stable interface people can rely on (seems this me it
> should rather be in sys)?  I maintain a tool in Debian to rip/encode
> audio CDs with one command and we could use this file to find the CD
> interface if it's not specified by the user.

I think it's pretty stable.  Except for adding new capabilities it's been
unchanged since the 2.2.x days.

Maybe Jens can comment more on it?
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