Re: CD writing in future Linux try #2 [ was: Re: CD writing in futureLinux (stirring up a hornets' nest) ]

From: Phillip Susi
Date: Mon Jan 30 2006 - 15:23:34 EST


Joerg Schilling wrote:
I am sorry to see your recent dicussion style.

I was asking a question and I did get a completely useless answer as
any person who has some basic know how Linux SCSI would know that
doing a stat("/dev/sg*", ...) will not return anything useful.

It certainly does return something useful, just not what you are looking for. It does not return information that allows you to cleanly build your bus:device:lun view of the world, but it does return sufficient information to enumerate and communicate with all devices in the system. Is that not sufficient to be able to implement cdrecord? If it is, then the real issue here is that you want Linux to conform to the bus:device:lun world view, which it seems many people do not wish to do.

Maybe it would be more constructive if you were to make a good argument for why the bus:device:lun view is better than /dev/*, but right now it seems to me that they are just two different ways of doing the same thing, and you prefer one way while the rest of the Linux developers prefer the other.
If people give useful answers, it makes sense to continue a discussion but it turns out that "joe average" on KLML replies before thinking about the problem.

Let me ask again:

Is there a way to get (or construct) a closed view on the namespace for all SCSI devices?


And IMPORTANT: don't answer unless you have a real answer for the problem.

Jörg


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