GEOM weirdness with SD flash reader?
Scott Long
scottl at samsco.org
Mon Jul 2 06:05:54 UTC 2007
Nate Lawson wrote:
> M. Warner Losh wrote:
>> In message: <4688878F.20406 at root.org>
>> Nate Lawson <nate at root.org> writes:
>> : Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> : > In message <4688830C.6050701 at 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?
>
I'm going to ask that you guys let me know before you adulterate scsi_da
with this.
Scott
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