Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

From: Olivier Galibert
Date: Wed Jan 25 2006 - 14:02:37 EST


On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 06:31:27PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> In fact it would be a _lot_ easier to just scan sysfs and do an inquiry
> on potentially useful devices.

Serious question, what and how? If I scan /sys/block for example for
potential candidates, that won't give me the devices or tell me the
name udev decided to use for it in /dev.

And I'm not sure how to know if something is cdrom-ish and SG_IO able
from sysfs. Should I filter on driver name? But then, I don't know
which names are acceptable (*cdrom* ?)...

Or maybe I should go through the fad-of-the-day, hal/dbus?

OG.
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