CD/DVD writer capabilities not correctly imported in HAL

[Pozsar Balazs]

> >> I have FC3 with HAL 4.5, and it seems that the info about my CD/DVD
> >> burner from HAL are not correct, at is supports dvdrw for sure. Here is
> >> info from lshal and from /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info:
> >> 
> >> 
> > Uhm, we use MMC commands to retrieve drive capabilities, not the
> > /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info file (which would be somewhat terrible to parse).
> > We might switch to using the latter on HEAD.

> I don't mind using MMC commands to retrieve drive capabilities if they
> provide accurate information.


I do not really understand how can /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info be more 
correct than the using mmc commands... How is that information 
retrieved?



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pozsy
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