From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 30 21:07:20 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 540AD1065670 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:07:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7D328FC1B for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:07:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 7068 invoked by uid 399); 30 Sep 2010 21:07:18 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.142?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 30 Sep 2010 21:07:18 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4CA4FC05.3020407@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:07:17 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <20100929211253.GA1250@freebsd.org> <4CA3B393.8060206@icyb.net.ua> <4CA3BD7C.9080306@feral.com> In-Reply-To: <4CA3BD7C.9080306@feral.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.2a1pre OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: letting glabel recognise a media change X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:07:20 -0000 On 9/29/2010 3:28 PM, Matthew Jacob wrote: > On 9/29/2010 2:45 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> on 30/09/2010 00:12 Alexander Best said the following: >>> hi there, >>> >>> i wanted to ask if it would be possible to asjust glabel so that e.g. >>> inserting >>> a new media into a dvd-drive gets recognised and glabel displays the >>> lablel >>> right away. >> Yes, of course, as soon as we have in kernel a programmatic way to >> know that >> media as changed. >> We don't have one right now... >> > > What announcement API would you like to add? > > If something like that was in place, I assure you that things would > start to use it very quickly. To what extent is HAL relevant here? I was sort of ambivalent about using it in FreeBSD, but my recent experimentation with ubuntu is starting to change my mind. Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/