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

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 03:15, Greg KH wrote:

> The problem is the following:
> 	- user plugs in their usb flash reader with no media in it
> 	- the main block device is create, no partitions
> 	- user plugs a flash stick/whatever into the reader
> 	- kernel gets no notification of this event
> 	- userspace gets no notification of this event
> 
> How can userspace know to open the main block device now?  Require that
> we put a big "Rescan media now" button on the desktop?  That's one way,
> but users are used to having to not do that.  
> 

Stupid question - can't the kernel do the rescan?


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Martin Schlemmer

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