Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263726AbUAHFTs (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2004 00:19:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263762AbUAHFTs (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2004 00:19:48 -0500 Received: from [192.94.94.6] ([192.94.94.6]:3778 "EHLO reloaded.ext.ti.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263726AbUAHFTo (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2004 00:19:44 -0500 Reply-To: From: "Iqbal" To: "'Jens Axboe'" Cc: Subject: RE: removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static /dev Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 10:49:35 +0530 Message-ID: <002501c3d5a7$01f0aa30$ddb7a8c0@ent.ti.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1586 Lines: 47 I feel, the media revalidation issue can be solved by hacking protocol(SCSI or USB) layer and the respective notification of the same to user space by a signal. -----Original Message----- From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Jens Axboe Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 4:01 PM To: Olaf Hering Cc: Andrey Borzenkov; Andries Brouwer; Greg KH; linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static /dev On Wed, Jan 07 2004, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 07 2004, Olaf Hering wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 07, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > > > > No need to put it in the kernel, user space fits the bil nicely. I don't > > > > see how this would lead to IO errors? > > > > > > Ok, how should it be done on my SCSI and parallel port ZIP? An ATAPI ZIP > ^^^ > > "How"? We need a sane way to deal with removeable medias. > Do you have example code that can be put into the udev distribution? -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/