From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265071AbTLHQqW (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:46:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265511AbTLHQkD (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:40:03 -0500 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:55301 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265485AbTLHQdM (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:33:12 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: gatekeeper.tmr.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: cdrecord hangs my computer Date: 8 Dec 2003 16:21:54 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Message-ID: References: <20031207110122.GB13844@zombie.inka.de> X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1070900514 15831 192.168.12.62 (8 Dec 2003 16:21:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Originator: davidsen@gatekeeper.tmr.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article , Linus Torvalds wrote: | 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. And the redeeming features of naming disks, CDs, and ide-floppy devices hda..hdx in an order depending on the loading order of the device drivers? -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.