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

[Jan Engelhardt]

>>>>
>>> But you need to open the correct /dev/sg[0-9] too, don't you?
>>> (otherwise cdrecord would set the jukebox on fire)
>> 
>> This is why the mapping engine is in the Linux adoption part of
>> libscg. It maps the non-stable device <-> /dev/sg* relation to a
>> stable b,t,l address.
>
>Well, the b,t,l mapping, judging from libscg code, is as stable as the
>ordering of the device nodes themselves, so it is not clear what the
>advantage would be other than getting a uniform and artificial b,t,l mapping.
>
>If hotplugging shuffles /dev/sg* between running $APPLICATION -scanbus and
>$APPLICATION -dowhatever, the b,t,l will change as well.
>

Don't interrupt my (trick) thread (as explained before in private).
Thank you.



Jan Engelhardt
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