Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices

Doug Maxey
2004-08-23T21:06:54Z

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:25:17 EDT, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>permission to open. This allows the admin to put in any filter desired,
> know about vendor commands, etc. It also allows various security
>setups, the group can be on the user (trusted users) or on a setgid
>program (which limits the security issues).

Down such path lies madness :) This list would have to be maintained for
most every model, of every drive, for every manufacturer. The list could
conceivably change weekly, if not sooner. This could change, of course, if
the use of linux would become as ubiquitous as the dominant redmond produnt,
and the manufacturers would supply the "mini-port" driver bits, as it were.

The theory is wonderful. Until there is enough "clout" to change the
manufacturers participation, it is probably futile. :-/

++doug