Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Add support for uevents on block device idlechanges

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:03:21PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:

> Sure, but what's wrong with reading that file every 50 seconds? Almost
> all boxes poll for media changes of optical drives and usb card
> readers anyway, so it's not that we are not doing stuff like this
> already.

We poll for media because there's no event-based way of avoiding it - in 
this case there is.
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