From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static /dev
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 00:08:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040112230805.GA3049@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
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)
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...).
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Thread overview: 131+ 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
2004-01-01 20:33 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-03 5:58 ` Greg KH
2004-01-03 5:58 ` Greg KH
2004-01-03 8:51 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-03 8:51 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-03 12:37 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-03 12:37 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-03 12:42 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-03 12:42 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-03 16:05 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-03 16:05 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-03 17:54 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-03 17:54 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 9:43 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-07 9:43 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-07 9:50 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 9:50 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 9:56 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-07 9:56 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-07 9:59 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 9:59 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 10:25 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-07 10:25 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-07 10:31 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 10:31 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 10:47 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-07 10:47 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-07 10:54 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 10:54 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 17:56 ` Greg KH
2004-01-07 17:56 ` Greg KH
2004-01-30 12:59 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-30 12:59 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-07 11:00 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-07 11:00 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-07 11:05 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 11:05 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 11:14 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-07 11:14 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-07 11:16 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 11:16 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-03 20:51 ` Greg KH
2004-01-03 20:51 ` Greg KH
2004-01-07 18:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-07 18:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-07 18:57 ` Greg KH
2004-01-07 18:57 ` Greg KH
2004-01-07 19:23 ` Mika Penttilä
2004-01-07 19:23 ` Mika Penttilä
2004-01-07 19:24 ` Greg KH
2004-01-07 19:24 ` Greg KH
2004-01-07 19:31 ` Mika Penttilä
2004-01-07 19:31 ` Mika Penttilä
2004-01-08 1:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-08 1:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-07 19:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-07 19:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-07 19:50 ` Greg KH
2004-01-07 19:50 ` Greg KH
2004-01-07 20:25 ` Richard Troth
2004-01-07 20:25 ` Richard Troth
2004-01-07 20:38 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-07 23:34 ` Greg KH
2004-01-07 23:34 ` Greg KH
2004-01-08 0:32 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-01-08 0:32 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-01-08 0:41 ` Greg KH
2004-01-08 0:41 ` Greg KH
2004-01-08 1:07 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-01-08 1:07 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-01-08 1:15 ` Greg KH
2004-01-08 1:15 ` Greg KH
2004-01-08 1:50 ` Martin J. Bligh
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 1:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-08 0:42 ` viro
2004-01-08 0:42 ` viro
2004-01-08 1:16 ` Greg KH
2004-01-08 1:16 ` Greg KH
2004-01-09 3:36 ` Joel Becker
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 [this message]
2004-01-07 20:52 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-07 20:52 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-08 2:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-08 2:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-08 4:16 ` Gene Heskett
2004-01-08 4:16 ` Gene Heskett
2004-01-08 4:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-08 4:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-08 7:45 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-08 7:45 ` Olaf Hering
2004-01-08 2:13 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-08 2:13 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-08 2:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-08 2:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-08 2:49 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-08 2:49 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-08 2:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-08 2:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-08 3:35 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-08 3:35 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-08 3:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-08 3:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-08 8:00 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-01-08 8:00 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-01-09 0:28 ` Robert Love
2004-01-09 0:28 ` Robert Love
2004-01-09 0:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-09 0:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-09 1:16 ` Matt Mackall
2004-01-09 1:16 ` Matt Mackall
2004-01-08 10:32 ` Éric Brunet
2004-01-08 14:06 ` "Andrey Borzenkov"
2004-01-08 14:06 ` "Andrey Borzenkov"
2004-01-12 9:09 ` Ling, Xiaofeng
2004-01-12 9:09 ` Ling, Xiaofeng
2004-03-29 15:39 ` Greg KH
2004-03-29 15:39 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-03-29 15:40 ` Olaf Hering
2004-03-29 15:40 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-03-29 15:40 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-03-29 15:40 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-29 15:40 ` Greg KH
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-08 5:19 Iqbal
2004-01-12 13:02 Nicolas Mailhot
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