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

Iqbal
2004-01-08T05:19:48Z

I feel, the media revalidation issue can be solved by hacking protocol(SCSI
or USB) layer and the respective notification of the same to user space by a
signal.

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
[mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Jens Axboe
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 4:01 PM
To: Olaf Hering
Cc: Andrey Borzenkov; Andries Brouwer; Greg KH;
linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static
/dev

On Wed, Jan 07 2004, 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?

--
Jens Axboe

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