Re: Working on a usb-storage hotplug script

[reflex <reflex-2000@gmx.net>]

Martin schrieb:

> So I began to google for a usb-storage hotplug script which
> would do what I want.
I have had the same problem and tried do solve it by scanning all
devices automatically: http://vold.sourceforge.net

KDE has a device kio slave which scanns /etc/fstab. So I could
probably add a feature where connected devices don't get mounted
but added to /etc/fstab so they appear on the desktop
automatically.

Drawback is: Vold doesnt know if it has just mounted a usb-drive
or a cdrom. And you will get nasty read-error messages in syslog
if you load the usb-storage driver but have no device attached
etc. They are not severe, I just have to find a way to suppress
them. It still misses an eject program to unmount as user.

> By looking in the usb and scsi nodes under /proc I decided that
> the only unique information between the two trees was the
> serial number.
Are you really sure that the serial is unique? If I remember
correctly the not all devices have serials set.


> I do have one further problem before I even start, which is
> that I don't seem to get a remove event when I disconnect a
> flash drive. Is this a known problem with my version of the
> kernel or of hotplug?
Same here. I think its a bug. But since its not 2.5/2.6-test
related nobody seems to care here :-(


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