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

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 07:38:37PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> Udev interfaces that and can be set up so that it assigns
> >> /dev/cdrecorder0, 1, ... to evey recorder in the system, implementing
> >> the userspace interface.
> >
> >Problem is, udev doesn't.  Or at least it varies from distribution to
> >distribution.  For instance recent gentoo creates /dev/cdrom*,
> >/dev/cdrw*, /dev/dvd*, /dev/dvdrw*.  Fedora core 3 creates
> >/dev/cdrom*, /dev/cdwriter*, /dev/dvd*, /dev/dvdwriter*.  I guess from
> >your email that SuSE does /dev/cdrecorder*.  And I'm not able to
> >guess what fedora core 5, mandrake, debian, slackware and infinite
> >number of derivatives do.
> 
> Plus you have to think about systems not using udev at all.
> Cheers, chaos preprogrammed.
 
Nope. Just let the user specify it. Either the user is experienced
enough to know what is the name of the CD recorder on his distro, or
he'll use precompiled distribution packages which will have the correct
default.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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