List supported burn speeds for CD writers
Danny Kukawka
danny.kukawka at web.de
Fri Jan 13 02:34:47 PST 2006
On Friday 13 January 2006 07:16, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> I've written a patch that publishes the list of burn speeds that a drive
> supports as the 'write_speeds' property attached to CD burners. It
> lists the (unique) supported speeds as a descending comma-separated
> list. For example:
>
> storage.cdrom.write_speeds = '7056,5645,4234,2822,2117' (string)
>
> I had to do it this way since hal doesn't support the concept of lists
> of integers and the libhal interface doesn't even allow you to use lists
> of strings (in any case, I believe a comma-separated string to be better
> than a list of strings - far less overhead).
This is not right. We have already list of strings: strlist. You can use them
instead of a comma.seperated string.
Cheers,
Danny
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