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

[Joerg Schilling]

Phillip Susi <psusi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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. 

It does not allow libscg to find all devices.

> 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. 

It would help if someone would give arguments why Linux does treat all 
SCSI devices equal, except for ATAPI transport based ones.

Jörg

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