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Date:      Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:16:05 +0200
From:      Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        ticso@cicely.de
Subject:   Re: Reattach/redetect allways connected umass device - is it possible ?
Message-ID:  <20050329081605.GA57775@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20050329.011148.69987814.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <20050328131318.GC14532@cicely12.cicely.de> <31970.1112016818@critter.freebsd.dk> <20050329.011148.69987814.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 01:11:48AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <31970.1112016818@critter.freebsd.dk>
>             "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
> : We should get an async event as soon as the media disappears.
> 
> We don't really need to know it is gone until the next time we try to
> access it...

From a desktop user experience point of view, it is rather nice to get
a notification if and when removable media disappears, without
continously polling said media. This statement intentionally ignores
the question of how to get such an event through the kernel to
userspace.

--Stijn

-- 
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