From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 23:34:54 +0000 Subject: Re: How to detect whether media is present in a reader? Message-Id: <20040609233453.GA12428@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <200406101053.33097.michael@gentoo.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <200406101053.33097.michael@gentoo.co.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 10:57:01AM +1200, Michael Hamilton wrote: > From looking at what's available I get the impression that > some variant on polling is the only solution for such problems. > Is this really the case - even for USB? Yup. Problem is that some devices provide no way of reporting if they actually have media in them or not. They also do not tell the host if the media that was in them is now gone. These types of cheap devices are very common :( Good luck, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: GNOME Foundation Hackers Unite! GUADEC: The world's #1 Open Source Desktop Event. GNOME Users and Developers European Conference, 28-30th June in Norway http://2004/guadec.org _______________________________________________ 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