Re: polling mechanism for media presence
Alan Stern <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.usb.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Allen Curtis wrote: > >> Desirable solution would be to poll for media and generate hotplug > >> events so this device can be handled like the other USB interface in > >> the system. We have registered this an an "unusual device" and created > >> a custom initialization function. What is the next step? > > > > Why have you created your unusual_devs entry? Is it at all connected > > with > > this media-detection problem? > > > > Anyway, your next step is to do nothing at all. HAL does this polling > > for > > you automatically. Just make sure you run HAL and you'll be all set. > > > Alan, > > I am sorry. HAL? Where do I get this daemon? It's part of the hal package, which is included in Fedora and presumably other distributions as well. See http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/hal Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel