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

[Joerg Schilling]

jerome lacoste <jerome.lacoste@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > The output of cdrecord -scanbus is already parsable,
>
> But it doesn't show the OS specific mapping.
>
> > so what is your point?
>
> I am aiming for a compromise.
>
> My point is that people want to use dev=/dev/hdc in their interface,
> because that's what they are used to. That's a point that I think you
> cannot deny.
>
> If you want to still keep your dev=b,t,l command line interface, just
> let the users know how your mapping is done. That will allow a
> cdrecord wrapper to first query the mapping, then using this mapping
> information and OS specific information (e.g. links) identify the
> b,t,l expected by your interface.
>
> That way you have mostly no code change to do. And you keep your b,t,l
> naming. Everybody is happy.
>
> I've added something like:
>
>                 fprintf(stdout, "%d,%d,%d <= /dev/%s\n",
> 				first_free_schilly_bus, t, l, token[ID_TOKEN_SUBSYSTEM] );
>
> in scsi-linux-ata.c and it does what I want.

The scanbus code was taken from "sformat".

Sformat already includes such a mapping if you are on Solaris.
Unfortunately this does cleanly work on Linux and for this
reason is did not make it into cdrecord.

Jörg

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