From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joey Hewitt Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 21:06:09 +0000 Subject: CD-ROM, etc. hotplugging? Message-Id: <200401141406.09681.joey@rmci.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel