Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> 
>> Note that UNIX people usually believe that is is best practice to have this 
>> kind of software intergrated in the kernel (or at leat in the system). This is 
>> what FreeBSD did try for some years, and FreeBSD has failed with this attempt.
>
>So why would Linux want to have it in the kernel if it hasn't worked for
>FreeBSD either? Thanks for proving it doesn't belong there BTW.
>
There's also something in the FreeBSD kernel that does work there, but has 
not worked out as good for Linux ;-) [devfs]

Therefore I would not generalize it and say "if it did not work on <x>, we 
don't need to implement it for our <y>".


Jan Engelhardt
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