From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phil Dibowitz Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 05:39:43 +0000 Subject: Re: udev and raw support Message-Id: <426DD41F.80303@ipom.com> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------enig26A5E67238AD91165E3300F4" List-Id: References: <426CC269.5090400@ipom.com> In-Reply-To: <426CC269.5090400@ipom.com> To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig26A5E67238AD91165E3300F4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greg KH wrote: > > What distro are you using? In order to have udev and raw working > together, you need a new version of the raw userspace program (sorry, > forgot about this until right now.) I know SuSE ships it in their > distro, don't know about everyone else. Debian unstable. /sbin/raw seems to be part of util-linux which is at version 2.12p-4 in debian unstable - i.e. 2.12p with 4 local debian revisions which may or may not include code from later util-linux releases. > Also, why use raw at all? It's depreciated, nasty code, which no one > likes at all, and has no real-world use. It is also going to be ripped > out of the kernel entirely one of these days. The only people who like > it are people who want to create useless benchmarks... I've never used it in linux, only in Solaris... but I'm told that it will provide better DVD Video read performance. Many of the DVD players out there provide support for raw devices, and in fact recommend using them. Since even on my high-end system I don't get the DVD playback that I get on my living room DVD player, I decided to give it a shot. Why is it depricated? What's wrong with using raw devices? -- Phil Dibowitz phil@ipom.com Freeware and Technical Pages Insanity Palace of Metallica http://www.phildev.net/ http://www.ipom.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 --------------enig26A5E67238AD91165E3300F4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCbdQfN5XoxaHnMrsRAmDuAJ9DVNHjbLv6PsfW7cM15M0gBVlG/gCeNYGX D8Qc6ofPGJO66EAVDrwRQvc= =u+hW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig26A5E67238AD91165E3300F4-- ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel