Re: removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static /dev

Greg KH
2004-01-07T17:57:08Z

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:25:15AM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 07 2004, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 07, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > >
> > > > No need to put it in the kernel, user space fits the bil nicely. I don't
> > > > see how this would lead to IO errors?
> > >
> > > Ok, how should it be done on my SCSI and parallel port ZIP? An ATAPI ZIP
> ^^^
>
> "How"? We need a sane way to deal with removeable medias.
> Do you have example code that can be put into the udev distribution?

In udev? Why, that sounds like the job for some other tool/program,
that can sit around and poll devices. Not job for udev (which is for
naming devices.)

thanks,

greg k-h