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

From: Olaf Hering (olh_at_suse.de)
Date: 01/08/04

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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

     On Wed, Jan 07, Linus Torvalds wrote:

    > This works. I do it all the time. You just stick in your card, and mount
    > it, and off it foes. No "fdisk" or "parted" _anywhere_.

    This is the point. You do it, and I do it. We just know that device and
    have it configured somehow.
    Now what should a distro do for these 'unknown' devices? Add 15 fstab
    entries and let KDE put 15 icons on the desktop (for that ZIP) and give
    the user a choice?

    Like you said in another mail:
    If you insert a smartmedia card in your cardreader, you expect to be
    able to access it pretty much immediately when you start typing.

    Noone knows in advance what media will be inserted. So we have to poll
    if the hardware doesnt inform us.
    We can make an assumption and add just one icon with a smart application
    behind it. This app does the 'blockdev --rereadpt /dev/hdd' on request,
    and not every 2 seconds. 

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