Re: Asynchronous CDROM Events in Userland

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On Mon, Feb 04 2002, Gregor Jasny wrote:
> Am Montag, 4. Februar 2002 08:57 schrieb Jens Axboe:
> > Yep, _no_ drives to date support queued event notification. However, a
> > polled approach is really not too bad -- it simply means that we'll push
> > it to user space instead. I've written a small utility for reference.
>
> You're wrong.

Not likely

> PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W2410A
> media removal
> eject request
> media removal
> media removal
>
> HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-2500
> no media change
> new media
> media removal

I'm wrong about what? If you mean that my test app works, then yes of
course it works. It's a synchronous command poll for media status. I
said that _queued event notification_ isn't implemented in any drives.

Did you read the code?

-- 
Jens Axboe
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