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From: Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Lukas Prediger <lumip@lumip.de>,
	axboe@kernel.dk, hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] drivers/cdrom: improved ioctl for media change detection
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 08:59:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YTsQfBwSPkZasDff@equinox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10f60086-2be0-d26d-dfa6-fe128772a409@infradead.org>

On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 06:25:35PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> I have no problem with Jens's suggestion.  It would look more like this:
> 
> +{
> +	__s64	last_media_change;	/* Timestamp of the last detected media
> +					 * change in ms. May be set by caller, updated
> +					 * upon successful return of ioctl.
> +					 */
> +	__u64	media_flags;		/* various <struct> flags */
> 
> #define MEDIA_CHANGED			0x1 /* Set to 1 by ioctl if last detected media */
> /* other bits of media_flags available for future use */
> 
> 
> and not having __u64 has_changed;
> which is overkill for a flag.
> 
> -- 
> ~Randy
> 

Yeah I like this, good idea. Thanks.

Regards,
Phil

  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-10  8:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-29 14:37 [PATCH v2] drivers/cdrom: improved ioctl for media change detection Lukas Prediger
2021-09-06 20:11 ` Jens Axboe
2021-09-06 22:57   ` Phillip Potter
2021-09-08 23:51   ` Phillip Potter
2021-09-09 18:04     ` Lukas Prediger
2021-09-09 23:07       ` Phillip Potter
2021-09-07  6:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-09  0:17   ` Phillip Potter
2021-09-09  0:42     ` Randy Dunlap
2021-09-09 18:05       ` Lukas Prediger
2021-09-09 23:20         ` Phillip Potter
2021-09-10  1:25         ` Randy Dunlap
2021-09-10  7:59           ` Phillip Potter [this message]
2021-09-09 23:00       ` Phillip Potter

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