From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>,
linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static /dev
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 19:43:50 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401071941390.2131@home.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040108043506.A1555@pclin040.win.tue.nl>
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Andries Brouwer wrote:
>
> I am even happy in a somewhat more general situation that you are.
> If the kernel autopartitions (and make recognition of new partitions
> hotplug events so that udev can create the device nodes), all is well.
Yes. We _could_ do that, by just making a "we noticed the disk change" be
a hotplug event. However, I'm loath to do that, because some devices
literally don't even have an easily read disk change signal, so what they
do is
- assume the disk _always_ changed on open
- do a quick IO to verify it
and I'd be nervous about that kind of thing resulting in hotplug being
called constantly if somebody rude just has an endless loop of
"open()/close()".
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-08 3:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-01 20:33 removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static /dev Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-03 5:58 ` Greg KH
2004-01-03 8:51 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-03 12:37 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-03 12:42 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-03 16:05 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-03 17:54 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 9:43 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-07 9:50 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 9:56 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-07 9:59 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 10:25 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-07 10:31 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 10:47 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-07 10:54 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 17:56 ` Greg KH
2004-01-30 12:59 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-07 11:00 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-07 11:05 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 11:14 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-07 11:16 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-03 20:51 ` Greg KH
2004-01-07 18:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-07 18:57 ` Greg KH
2004-01-07 19:23 ` Mika Penttilä
2004-01-07 19:24 ` Greg KH
2004-01-07 19:31 ` Mika Penttilä
2004-01-08 1:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-07 19:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-07 19:50 ` Greg KH
2004-01-07 20:25 ` Richard Troth
2004-01-07 20:38 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-07 23:34 ` Greg KH
2004-01-08 0:32 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-01-08 0:41 ` Greg KH
2004-01-08 1:07 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-01-08 1:15 ` Greg KH
2004-01-08 1:50 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-01-08 18:34 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-01-08 1:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-08 14:06 ` "Andrey Borzenkov"
2004-01-08 0:42 ` viro
2004-01-08 1:16 ` Greg KH
2004-01-09 3:36 ` Joel Becker
2004-01-09 9:49 ` Gerd Knorr
2004-01-12 17:16 ` Joel Becker
2004-01-12 23:08 ` J.A. Magallon
2004-01-07 20:52 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-08 2:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-08 4:16 ` Gene Heskett
2004-01-08 4:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-08 7:45 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-08 2:13 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-08 2:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-08 2:49 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-08 2:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-08 3:35 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-08 3:43 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2004-01-08 8:00 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-01-09 0:28 ` Robert Love
2004-01-09 0:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-09 1:16 ` Matt Mackall
2004-01-08 10:32 ` Éric Brunet
2004-01-08 5:19 Iqbal
2004-01-12 9:09 Ling, Xiaofeng
2004-01-12 13:02 Nicolas Mailhot
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