From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751779AbWBMOHo (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:07:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751780AbWBMOHo (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:07:44 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:410 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751779AbWBMOHn (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:07:43 -0500 Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:07:42 +0100 From: Martin Mares To: Joerg Schilling Cc: dhazelton@enter.net, peter.read@gmail.com, matthias.andree@gmx.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jim@why.dont.jablowme.net, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) Message-ID: References: <20060208162828.GA17534@voodoo> <200602090757.13767.dhazelton@enter.net> <43EC8F22.nailISDL17DJF@burner> <200602092221.56942.dhazelton@enter.net> <43F08C5F.nailKUSDKZUAZ@burner> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43F08C5F.nailKUSDKZUAZ@burner> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello! > libscg abstracts from a kernel specific transport and allows to write OS > independent applications that rely in generic SCSI transport. > > For this reason, it is bejond the scope of the Linux kernel team to decide on > this abstraction layer. The Linux kernel team just need to take the current > libscg interface as given as _this_ _is_ the way to do best abstraction. Do you really believe that libscg is the only way in the world how to access SCSI devices? How can you be so sure that the abstraction you have chosen is the only possible one? If an answer to either of this questions is NO, why do you insist on everybody bending their rules to suit your model? > The Linux kernel team has the freedom to boycott portable user space SCSI > applications or to support them. That's really an interesting view ... if anybody is boycotting anybody, then it's clearly you, because you refuse to extend libscg to support the Linux model, although it's clearly possible. 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 Ctrl and Alt keys stuck -- press Del to continue.