M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <4688791D.6050007_at_root.org> > Nate Lawson <nate_at_root.org> writes: > : What if we kicked off a thread to run every 3 seconds that did a quick > : poll of such devices and sent a devd notify if they arrived (i.e. medium > : present)? It wouldn't work for floppy drives, but we could make this > : part of the da driver or something in usermode like devd itself calling > : camcontrol? > > In the past, people have said that polling messes up multimedia > access, so it hasn't happened. > > But wouldn't a simple daemon in userland do the same thing? Or > parsing the output of camcontrol inquiry? Camcontrol rescan is a nop > for these devices. 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. -- NateReceived on Mon Jul 02 2007 - 02:46:12 UTC
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