Re: [PATCH] docs: admin: devices: /dev/sr<N> for SCSI CD-ROM

[Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>]

On 29/11/2025 13:13, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2025 at 12:12:32AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
>> +Usage of ``/dev/scd?`` as alternate SCSI CD-ROM names for ``sr?`` devices
>> +ended around year 2011.
> 
> What about "Support for /dev/scd? as alternative names for /dev/sr? has been
> removed in 2011"?

If others support your suggestion then I do not mind. Feel free to 
commit preferred variant ignoring my patch.

I would be more verbose however by adding that it was removed namely 
from udev:

Creation of ``/dev/scd?`` alternative names for ``sr?`` CD-ROM and other 
optical drives (using SCSI commands) was removed in ``udev-174`` 
(released in 2011).

Perhaps I am biased by my confusion. Noticed that wodim tries to access 
currently absent /dev/scd0 for kernels >= X.6, I tried git blame game in 
kernel repository to find kernel version when scd<N> were renamed to 
sr<N>. It took some time for me to realize that it is impossible to 
determine scd vs. sr from kernel version. That is why I would consider 
adding explicit mention of udev. Otherwise for me it sounds like that 
scd? names were removed from kernel. I am not a native English speaker, 
so I do not insist on my variant.

How long I should wait for comments before submitting another revision 
of the patch? I hope, pending changes are not an obstacle for those who 
are tempting to review the whole devices.rst file.