Re: OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog

[Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>]

Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com> wrote:

> > BTW: an implementation that uses something like Solaris does with
> > /etc/path_to_inst and puts USB serial numbers into the path_to_inst
> > kernel instance database could come very close to the desired result
> > and would give stable SCSI addresses too.
>
> But why fix what isn't broken?  I can tell all my other programs, from
> dd to mount, that I want to use the udev-created /dev/green_burner, so
> why do you indicate such usage is _deprecated_ in cdrecord?  For such
> device nodes, a _filesystem_ is the preferred name=>number index, so
> why add an extra strange file "just because Solaris does".

If you use /dev/ entries to directly address SCSI targets, then you 
are relying on on assumptions that cannot be granted everywhere.

Cdrecord is portable and this needs to implement a way that is portable 
and does not rely on nonportable assumptions like yours.


> And why again do you need stable SCSI addresses for my _USB_ drive?

Well if the udev program was polite to users, it would also support
to edit /etc/default/cdrecord...... 

... if it _really_ does wat you like with /dev/ links, then it has all 
the information that is needed to also maintain /etc/default/cdrecord



Jörg

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