From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262308AbUALXIL (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:08:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262458AbUALXIL (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:08:11 -0500 Received: from smtp09.auna.com ([62.81.186.19]:6636 "EHLO smtp09.retemail.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262308AbUALXII (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:08:08 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 00:08:05 +0100 From: "J.A. Magallon" To: Joel Becker Cc: Gerd Knorr , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static /dev Message-ID: <20040112230805.GA3049@werewolf.able.es> References: <200401012333.04930.arvidjaar@mail.ru> <20040103055847.GC5306@kroah.com> <20040107185656.GB31827@kroah.com> <20040109033655.GK11065@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <87wu81tptc.fsf@bytesex.org> <20040112171656.GM11065@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT In-Reply-To: <20040112171656.GM11065@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> (from Joel.Becker@oracle.com on Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 18:16:56 +0100) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.0.15 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01.12, Joel Becker wrote: > On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 10:49:03AM +0100, Gerd Knorr wrote: > > I also think you don't need *all* minors for removable media. I > > havn't seen removable media with extended partitions so far. IIRC zip > > floppys are using /dev/sda4 and most other ones either /dev/sda1 or > > /dev/sda directly, so we likely can catch 99% with just three device > > nodes. > > Ahh, but that's magic, and we don't want magic. Today, you just > 'magically' know that your camera card reader shows up at sda1. We Or that a standard MacOS hfs+ drive (or usb flash) does not show at sdc9 (as it does, in fact...). -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf!able!es \ It's better when it's free Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.6.1-jam2 (gcc 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-4mdk))