From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265453AbTLHQ0W (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:26:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265479AbTLHQ0W (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:26:22 -0500 Received: from citrine.spiritone.com ([216.99.193.133]:1005 "EHLO citrine.spiritone.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265453AbTLHQYV (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:24:21 -0500 Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 08:24:17 -0800 From: "Martin J. Bligh" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: cdrecord hangs my computer Message-ID: <1201390000.1070900656@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: References: <3FD1994C.10607@stinkfoot.org><20031206084032.A3438@animx.eu.org> <20031206220227.GA19016@work.bitmover.com> <20031207110122.GB13844@zombie.inka.de> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > In contrast, the old cdrecord interfaces are an UNBELIEVABLE PILE OF CRAP! > It's an interface that is based on some random hardware layout mechanism > that isn't even TRUE any more, and hasn't been true for a long time. It's > not helpful to the user, and it doesn't match how devices are accessed by > everything else on the system. > > It's bad from a technical standpoint (anybody who names a generic device > with a flat namespace is just basically clueless), and it's bad from a > usability standpoint. It has _zero_ redeeming qualities. I think the appropriate phrase is "user malevolent" software. Making the user interface fit some arcane technica rather than the user is rather tragic. Reality is quite complicated enough as it is, without deliberately setting out to make it more so. M.