[PATCH] update ide storage.drive_type values

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Thu Apr 12 12:50:40 PDT 2007


On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 14:09 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > What about just using 'cdrom' for 'optical'? It already defact means
> > optical drive as it encompasses both CD, DVD, HDDVD, BluRay and other
> > writers? We use properties on storage.cdrom.* to specify the capabilties
> > of the optical drive (they are not mutually exclusive).
> 
> Optical should only mean Magneto Optical and not CDROM if I understand the 
> kernel code correct. 

But why should we treat it any different from the family of optical
drives we already classify as storage.cdrom? It's just going to make all
the policy knobs we're adding right now more complex...

     David




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