Re: Removing "pointless" exception for exotic block devices causes probe to find CDs

[Andrew Clausen]

On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 11:38:30AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > I would rather we had some other mechanism for detecting CD drives
> > and other read-only media.  Clearly, the CD thing is purely a
> > side-effect.
> 
> Ah; so perhaps frontends should simply check PedDevice->read_only, which
> looks like it'll always be set if applicable after
> ped_device_probe_all()? I can live with that, and it seems to work.

Ah, it does work :)  Yes, applications should do that.

> It'd be nice if this were flagged as an interface change, though.

What do you mean?

Cheers,
Andrew