From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030625AbWBIKAL (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2006 05:00:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030513AbWBIKAL (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2006 05:00:11 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:49891 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030625AbWBIKAJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2006 05:00:09 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:00:08 +0100 From: Martin Mares To: Joerg Schilling Cc: jim@why.dont.jablowme.net, peter.read@gmail.com, matthias.andree@gmx.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) Message-ID: References: <73d8d0290602060706o75f04c1cx@mail.gmail.com> <43E7680E.2000506@gmx.de> <20060206205437.GA12270@voodoo> <43E89B56.nailA792EWNLG@burner> <20060207183712.GC5341@voodoo> <43E9F1CD.nail2BR11FL52@burner> <20060208162828.GA17534@voodoo> <43EA1D26.nail40E11SL53@burner> <20060208165330.GB17534@voodoo> <43EB0DEB.nail52A1LVGUO@burner> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43EB0DEB.nail52A1LVGUO@burner> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello! > Please explain me: > > - how to use /dev/hd* in order to scan an image from a scanner > - how to use /dev/hd* in order to talk to a CPU device > - how to use /dev/hd* in order to talk to a tape device > - how to use /dev/hd* in order to talk to a printer > - how to use /dev/hd* in order to talk to a jukebox > - how to use /dev/hd* in order to talk to a graphical device Nobody speaks about using /dev/hd* for all that, just about that there always will be a /dev/something corresponding to the device. Also, as you have mentioned /dev/hd*, it seems that you consider all these devices connected over ATAPI. Again an exercise in mythical zoology as in the ATAPI tape example. Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth For every complex problem, there's a solution that is simple, neat and wrong.