CD/DVD writer capabilities not correctly imported in HAL

Pozsar Balazs pozsy at uhulinux.hu
Mon Jan 24 03:09:14 PST 2005


On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 05:03:51PM +0600, Alexey Morozov wrote:
> 
> So probably MMC-commands can help. But I personally think that stuff 
> like udev and hal should rely on kernel correctness rather than 
> re-inventing checking code again and again, and bugs like that must be 
> solved on kernel level.

I agree that wheel reinvention should be avoided, eg detecting drive 
capabilities should only be in the kernel _or_ in userspace (hal).

I do not understand why the kernel needs this info itself, maybe it 
should be ripped out of it, and just implemented in hal (correctly).

-- 
pozsy
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