Re: removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static /dev

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:25:15AM +0100, 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?

In udev?  Why, that sounds like the job for some other tool/program,
that can sit around and poll devices.  Not job for udev (which is for
naming devices.)

thanks,

greg k-h
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