Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 12:32:15 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Volker Stolz <stolz@hyperion.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux@uol.com.br>, Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>, Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com>, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preferred device for ogle DVD is /dev/racd0c ? (was Re: Device for DVD with mplayer/current/devfs?) Message-ID: <20011022123215.A24036@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20011022212120.A18093@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>; from stolz@hyperion.informatik.rwth-aachen.de on Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 09:21:20PM %2B0200 References: <20011012210517.A15947@nc.rr.com> <1002944815.3bc7b92f39ba9@Mail.SavvyWorld.Net> <20011013091956.A1069@nc.rr.com> <20011020010947.A3518@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <3BD41DF9.9A7E178C@mitre.org> <20011022144348.A1576@exxodus.fedaykin.here> <20011022095531.A6388@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20011022150534.B3960@exxodus.fedaykin.here> <20011022101156.A8722@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20011022212120.A18093@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
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On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 09:21:20PM +0200, Volker Stolz wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:11:56AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 03:05:34PM -0200, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreir=
a wrote:
> > > Ahhh, that's what I wanted to know, I did not know that. However,
> > > it seems that /dev/MAKEDEV (latest stable) does not create /dev/acd0
> > > per default, so we should go with acd0c. Or, better, we could add a
> > > /dev/dvd link which points to the correct acd0{,[ac]} like we do with
> > > sysmouse.
> >=20
> > For now you are probably best off with acd0c.=20
>=20
> Why? My DVD-player is at /dev/cd0c. So I'd prefer /dev/dvd.
Because acd0c will work for the most people out of the box. ATAPI DVD
drives outnumber SCSI ones by at least 10:1 and probably more like
100:1 if not 1000:1. I'd rather limit the number of people who are
inconvenienced then make the inconvenience equal.
A standardized make.conf variable for ports would be a better solution.
That would resolve the OS version differences and if you defaulted it to
/dev/acd0c in stable and /dev/acd0 in current it would let those work out
of the box while providing a single place to make the change for SCSI or
other weird cd devices. The problem with /dev links is there are just
too many choices (cdrom, cd, dvd, dvdrom, etc.) and most of them are
used somewhere out there. I think it would be better to standardize it
in the build system since that's something we have some control over.
-- Brooks
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