Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 02:01:02 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>, Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>,
       Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
       Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>,
       Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>,
       Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Flames over -- Re: Which is simpler?
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On Po 20-02-06 01:56:17, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 08:43:44PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Kernel can not tell the diference, and just because you don't like the
> > behaviour does not mean we have to work around hardware limitation.
> > 
> > You deal with it. Post a patch.
> 
> It would take more than one patch, but it could be done:

Actually, if you really want to do this, it would probably make sense
to do at blockdevice level -- with device mapper magic or something.

That way you could prompt user "return that flash driver, I still want
to write to it" after surprise unplug, etc. And suspend is special
case of surprise unplug, then replug.

								Pavel
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