From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: USB card reader media detection
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 17:51:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050405175158.GA18120@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000701c536af$9e5e8b20$f601a8c0@SenatorPalmer>
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 12:40:34PM +0100, Andrew Marshall wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would very much appreciate any assistance anyone can offer on the
> following:
>
> I am currently running version 2.4.22 of the Kernel and am writing an
> application that needs to cope with the removal of card media form a USB
> flash card reader.
>
> Hotplug informs me when the card reader itself is added with my intention
> being to scan for partition entries at the newly created dev/scsi entry
>
> e.g /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
>
> and mount any partitions detected.
>
> This works fine -- but I also need to detect when a memory card has been
> removed.
Sorry, will not work properly, as not all devices report when a card has
been added or removed. You need to poll the device :(
Good luck,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-05 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-01 11:40 USB card reader media detection Andrew Marshall
2005-04-01 14:40 ` Kay Sievers
2005-04-05 17:51 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-04-06 11:06 ` Andrew Marshall
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