Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: [Evms-devel] Re: EVMS Submission for 2.5 | Date | Thu, 3 Oct 2002 21:52:12 +0200 |
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> All devices that have a "struct device" (which should be about > everything these days, if not, please let me know), cause a > /sbin/hotplug event to happen. This event says what type of device was > added or removed, and includes the location of the device in the > driverfs tree so that userspace can then determine what it wants to do > with this device.
device != medium There's a need to report that as well. The current hotplugging model needs some more types of events before it is ready for all types of applications. In fact a change of medium can radically alter features of a device, eg. from ro to rw.
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