From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cdrecord hangs my computer
Date: 8 Dec 2003 16:21:54 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <br28f2$fen$1@gatekeeper.tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.58.0312070812080.2057@home.osdl.org
In article <Pine.LNX.4.58.0312070812080.2057@home.osdl.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
| In contrast, the old cdrecord interfaces are an UNBELIEVABLE PILE OF CRAP!
| It's an interface that is based on some random hardware layout mechanism
| that isn't even TRUE any more, and hasn't been true for a long time. It's
| not helpful to the user, and it doesn't match how devices are accessed by
| everything else on the system.
|
| It's bad from a technical standpoint (anybody who names a generic device
| with a flat namespace is just basically clueless), and it's bad from a
| usability standpoint. It has _zero_ redeeming qualities.
And the redeeming features of naming disks, CDs, and ide-floppy devices
hda..hdx in an order depending on the loading order of the device
drivers?
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-08 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-06 8:01 cdrecord hangs my computer Tero Knuutila
2003-12-06 8:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-06 8:54 ` Ethan Weinstein
2003-12-06 11:59 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-06 13:40 ` Wakko Warner
2003-12-06 14:37 ` John Bradford
2003-12-06 21:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-06 22:02 ` Larry McVoy
2003-12-06 22:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-07 11:01 ` Eduard Bloch
2003-12-07 16:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-08 16:21 ` bill davidsen [this message]
2003-12-08 17:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-09 12:38 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-12-08 17:53 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-12-08 18:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-08 19:40 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-12-09 14:50 ` Ian Soboroff
2003-12-09 20:42 ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-12-08 16:24 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-12-08 19:22 ` dialectical deprecation " Bob
2003-12-09 21:19 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-09 22:31 ` David Lang
2003-12-09 21:51 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-08 4:36 ` Bob
2003-12-08 4:51 ` Larry McVoy
2003-12-07 0:16 ` Wakko Warner
2003-12-07 3:31 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-07 4:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-08 16:13 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-08 17:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-08 19:41 ` bluefaceplate demographics " Bob
2003-12-06 16:42 ` Linus Torvalds
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-06 12:39 Tero Knuutila
2003-12-06 18:27 Tero Knuutila
2003-12-06 19:08 Tero Knuutila
2003-12-08 9:31 Douglas Gilbert
2003-12-11 12:56 ` Jens Axboe
2003-12-11 16:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-15 13:29 Paul Marinceu
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