Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Jan 2004 18:56:30 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static /dev |
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On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Andries Brouwer wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:19:42PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > When I insert a card in my card reader, it had better "just work". WITHOUT > > any strange "poll another device Y to make device X" work. > > But it does just work. > > Already today.
Exactly. It works today, because:
- the device nodes are there.
Ergo: udev should create the device nodes
- the kernel autopartitions the device on any open (both main device and the subpartitions) when it notices a changed media. No polling required.
Ergo: the kernel should continue to do this.
We should _not_ be in the situation where either of these things aren't true.
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