From: Joey Hewitt <joey@rmci.net>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: CD-ROM, etc. hotplugging?
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 21:06:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200401141406.09681.joey@rmci.net> (raw)
Hello,
Is there any reason for not generating and using hotplug events for things
like CD-ROM drive trays opening/closing? There's probably other examples of
events like this, that are not technically a hotplug event, but it would be
useful if they were handled as such. For example, when someone puts a CD in,
a script checks what type of CD it is. If it's audio, a program to play
audio CD's starts up. If it's data, the CD is mounted -- maybe even making
the mount point be based on the volume name (that's probably a dumb idea, but
it should be possible.) Desktop OS's like KDE could then also add icons for
the device on the desktop.
I think this would overall increase how automatic GNU/Linux systems are --
right now, these types of things can be created, but it requires knowledge of
the kernel, drivers, and filesystems. End-users don't want to have to do
this. I guess this functionality may be more in the domain of distribution
creators; what do you think? Oh, btw, I'm new to this list and I thought I'd
check the archives to see if this question's already been asked, but they
seem to be broken, so sorry if this topic has already been discussed.
= Joey
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2004-01-14 21:06 Joey Hewitt [this message]
2004-01-14 21:18 ` CD-ROM, etc. hotplugging? Oliver Neukum
2004-01-14 21:36 ` Greg KH
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