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Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 08:31:02 -0800
From: LA Walsh <law@sgi.com>
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CC: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages
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God wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > > > this isnt a kernel problem, its a _very_ stupid app
> > > ---
> > >     Must be more than one stupid app...
> >
> > Could well be. You have something continually trying to open your cdrom and
> > see if there is media in it
> 
> Gnome / KDE? does exactly that... (rather annoying too) ..  what app
> specificaly I don't know...
---
	So I'm still wondering what the "approved and recommended" way for a program
to be "automatically" informed of a CD or floppy change/insertion and be able to
informed of media 'type' w/o kernel warnings/error messages.  It sounds like
there is no kernel support for this so far?

	Then it seems the less ideal question is what is the "approved and recommended
way for a program to "poll" such devices to check for 'changes' and 'media type'
without the kernel generating spurious WARNINGS/ERRORS?


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