CD-ROM, etc. hotplugging?

CD-ROM, etc. hotplugging?

[Joey Hewitt]

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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Re: CD-ROM, etc. hotplugging?

[Oliver Neukum]

Am Mittwoch, 14. Januar 2004 22:06 schrieb Joey Hewitt:
> 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 

Yes, there is. The kernel doesn't learn about such events, as devices don't
report them.

	Regards
		Oliver



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Re: CD-ROM, etc. hotplugging?

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 02:06:09PM -0700, Joey Hewitt wrote:
> 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.

gmane.org has the whole archive of this mailing list, back to when it
was created (was built from my local archive), as well as providing a
news feed of the list.

I also think marc.theaimsgroup.org has a searchable archive.

I gave up on the sf.net archive a long time ago...

thanks,

greg k-h


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