From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 01:48:20 +0000 Subject: Re: removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static /dev Message-Id: List-Id: References: <200401012333.04930.arvidjaar@mail.ru> <20040103055847.GC5306@kroah.com> <20040107185656.GB31827@kroah.com> <20040107195032.GB823@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20040107195032.GB823@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Greg KH Cc: Andrey Borzenkov , linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Greg KH wrote: > > It sounds like just having the device node around will not cause the > rescan if you access it. Who has problems with it, and why? When you open a partition, that will automatically open the "whole device", and that should cause a re-scan if the device supports the "disk change" flagging. This definitely has worked for me. It used to be broken in really early 2.5.x, but it got fixed with the block device interface fixes. Linus ------------------------------------------------------- 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