On Sun, Jan 09 2000, Netnoise wrote:
> How can I intercept when the cdrom's open button is pressed.
> My developing embedded system need to know when the user try to open the
> cdrom... how can I ?
You can't really, not now. The problem is that to make that happen,
we have to poll the drive continually for events (GET_EVENT_STATUS).
The standard does cover asynchronous notification, but I haven't
seen any drives that support it...
-- * Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk> * Linux CD-ROM Maintainer * http://www.kernel.dk- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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