Re: Flames over -- Re: Which is simpler?

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sun Feb 19 2006 - 19:59:09 EST


On Po 20-02-06 01:56:17, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 08:43:44PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Kernel can not tell the diference, and just because you don't like the
> > behaviour does not mean we have to work around hardware limitation.
> >
> > You deal with it. Post a patch.
>
> It would take more than one patch, but it could be done:

Actually, if you really want to do this, it would probably make sense
to do at blockdevice level -- with device mapper magic or something.

That way you could prompt user "return that flash driver, I still want
to write to it" after surprise unplug, etc. And suspend is special
case of surprise unplug, then replug.

Pavel
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