Re: Reattach/redetect allways connected umass device - is it possible ?

Stijn Hoop <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.current,gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 01:11:48AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <[email protected]>
>             "Poul-Henning Kamp" <[email protected]> writes:
> : We should get an async event as soon as the media disappears.
> 
> We don't really need to know it is gone until the next time we try to
> access it...

From a desktop user experience point of view, it is rather nice to get
a notification if and when removable media disappears, without
continously polling said media. This statement intentionally ignores
the question of how to get such an event through the kernel to
userspace.

--Stijn

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