Re: Of removable devices

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Tue Feb 15 2000 - 16:42:17 EST


On Tue, Feb 15 2000, Francis GALIEGUE wrote:
> It still does not answer my question of what misses in the kernel to
> do that... Moreover your solution would require that the media report
> media status change. There's AIN for CDROMs, but what for IDE floppies
> and the like? Moreover, IDE floppies have no CDROM_LOCKDOOR ioctl
> right now (I have a patch for that BTW).

Show me a drive that can do automatic insert notification? And
forget about polling.

-- 
*  Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
*  Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
*  http://www.kernel.dk

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