From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932251AbWBMSNX (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:13:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932383AbWBMSNX (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:13:23 -0500 Received: from mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de ([193.174.154.14]:57040 "EHLO mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932251AbWBMSNW (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:13:22 -0500 From: Joerg Schilling Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:12:00 +0100 To: schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de, jerome.lacoste@gmail.com Cc: peter.read@gmail.com, mj@ucw.cz, matthias.andree@gmx.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jim@why.dont.jablowme.net, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de, dhazelton@enter.net Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) Message-ID: <43F0CBF0.nailMFL11QJR1@burner> References: <20060208162828.GA17534@voodoo> <43EC8F22.nailISDL17DJF@burner> <5a2cf1f60602100738r465dd996m2ddc8ef18bf1b716@mail.gmail.com> <43F06220.nailKUS5D8SL2@burner> <5a2cf1f60602130407j79805b8al55fe999426d90b97@mail.gmail.com> <43F0A010.nailKUSR1CGG5@burner> <5a2cf1f60602130724n7b060e29r57411260b04d5972@mail.gmail.com> <43F0AA83.nailKUS171HI4B@burner> <5a2cf1f60602130805u537de206k22fa418ee214cf02@mail.gmail.com> <43F0B2BA.nailKUS1DNTEHA@burner> <5a2cf1f60602130912u7e8d28c4w4ef1749ff6c73142@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5a2cf1f60602130912u7e8d28c4w4ef1749ff6c73142@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: nail 11.2 8/15/04 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org jerome lacoste wrote: > To make it so that: > > - cdrecord keeps its dev=b,t,l command line interface > > - a cdrecord wrapper program lets a user specify the os specific name > to access the drive. The wrapper program would identify the b,t,l name > and feed it correctly to cdrecord. This can also be used to correctly > identify 2 identical drives using their OS specific names. > > -scanbus displays: > 1,0,0: DRIVE MODEL XYZ > 2,0,0: DRIVE MODEL XYZ > > but thank to that proposal, one would also have: > > 1,0,0 <= /dev/hdc > 2,0,0 <= /dev/hdd > > I think it's a good compromise between what the users want and what you want. > > So, WDYT? If this would not be Linux only, go ahead. Note that you would have to do real hard work as it is not trivial to prove your patch on all supported OS.... Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily