Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:00:29 -0700 From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: phk@phk.freebsd.dk, marck@rinet.ru, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM weirdness with SD flash reader? Message-ID: <4688947D.4040803@root.org> In-Reply-To: <20070701.233153.-1343615328.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <54253.1183351841@critter.freebsd.dk> <4688878F.20406@root.org> <20070701.233153.-1343615328.imp@bsdimp.com>
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M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <4688878F.20406@root.org>
> Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> writes:
> : Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> : > In message <4688830C.6050701@root.org>, Nate Lawson writes:
> : >
> : >> camcontrol tur (test unit ready) will return an error or success if the
> : >> medium is now present. Kicking off a process to do that when a
> : >> removable media da(4) device appears seems like a good idea. It could
> : >> also be a thread in devd.
> : >
> : > I would call that "The Linux Solution" :-)
> : >
> : > The right place to poll is from scsi_da.
> :
> : I disagree. Once scsi_da found the media, it would then somehow need to
> : notify devd (i.e. to automount). If both functions are in devd, the
> : loop becomes:
> :
> : while (1) {
> : camcontrol tur mydev;
> : if (found)
> : notify_automount;
> : break;
> : sleep 3;
> : }
>
> This doesn't belong in devd.
>
> Robert has patches to bring new geom entries into the realm of devd.
URL?
--
Nate
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