From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266194AbUAGKyo (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 05:54:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266298AbUAGKyo (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 05:54:44 -0500 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:41894 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266194AbUAGKym (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 05:54:42 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:54:35 +0100 From: Jens Axboe To: Andrey Borzenkov Cc: Olaf Hering , Andries Brouwer , Greg KH , linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static /dev Message-ID: <20040107105435.GA3483@suse.de> References: <200401012333.04930.arvidjaar@mail.ru> <20040107102515.GC22770@suse.de> <20040107103123.GZ3483@suse.de> <200401071347.40328.arvidjaar@mail.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200401071347.40328.arvidjaar@mail.ru> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 07 2004, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > On Wednesday 07 January 2004 13:31, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 07 2004, Olaf Hering wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 07, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 07 2004, Olaf Hering wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jan 07, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > > > No need to put it in the kernel, user space fits the bil nicely. I > > > > > > don't see how this would lead to IO errors? > > > > > > > > > > Ok, how should it be done on my SCSI and parallel port ZIP? An ATAPI > > > > > ZIP > > > > > > ^^^ > > > > > > "How"? We need a sane way to deal with removeable medias. > > > Do you have example code that can be put into the udev distribution? > > > > Depends. If the device supports event status notification, then that is > > what should be used. > > Would you please give some pointers to information about "event status > notification". Sure, I'm talking about GPCMD_GET_EVENT_STATUS_NOTIFICATION (see cdrom.h), opcode 0x4a in the mt fuji or mmc docs. You can fetch here: ftp://ftp.avc-pioneer.com/Mtfuji5/ -- Jens Axboe