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

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Andries Brouwer wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:19:42PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > When I insert a card in my card reader, it had better "just work". WITHOUT 
> > any strange "poll another device Y to make device X" work.
> 
> But it does just work.
> 
> Already today.

Exactly. It works today, because:

 - the device nodes are there.

   Ergo: udev should create the device nodes

 - the kernel autopartitions the device on any open (both main device and 
   the subpartitions) when it notices a changed media. No polling 
   required.

   Ergo: the kernel should continue to do this.

We should _not_ be in the situation where either of these things aren't 
true.

		Linus
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