Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:11:09 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@deepcore.dk>, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c atapi-cd.h Message-ID: <473E238D.4030800@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <33841.1195254456@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <33841.1195254456@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <473E1A76.1030207@root.org>, Nate Lawson writes: > >> Well, there are two questions: media present (yes/no) and drive capable >> of telling if media present without just trying to read it (yes/no). > > This risk reopening the old religious war if drivers should poll > their drives to be up to date on media existence. > > Practically all other modern operating systems do it, with the > benefit that an icon can be flashed when you plug something in, > (and in certain cases, so viruses can be autoinstalled without > relying on user stupidity). > > I personally think it would make a lot of sense if FreeBSD moved > in that way, but I've been told in no uncertain terms that this > will speed up third coming and shake the very foundations of the > unive^H^H^H^H^HCAM code. > > This has nothing to do with polling, you're just trotting out an irrelevant argument to divert attention. Scott
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