[PATCH] update ide storage.drive_type values
Danny Kukawka
danny.kukawka at web.de
Mon Apr 9 05:09:02 PDT 2007
On Sonntag, 8. April 2007, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 19:56 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > this patch update the possible values of the 'media' attribute for ide
> > devices, by add 'tape' and new 'optical' values for the
> > storage.drive_type property. Updated also the spec.
>
> 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.
Danny
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