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Date:      Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:23:30 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        ticso@cicely.de
Subject:   Re: Reattach/redetect allways connected umass device - is it possible ? 
Message-ID:  <40083.1112084610@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Mar 2005 01:16:33 PDT." <20050329.011633.33548829.imp@bsdimp.com> 

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In message <20050329.011633.33548829.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes:

>: >: Only partial.
>: >
>: >You should be getting a change notification on the first access after
>: >the change happens...
>: 
>: Right, that's what I mean by "partial".  Full support would be an interrupt
>: when a media is removed or inserted.
>
>And what hardware, apart from PC Card, actually supports this?

>From my point of view that is not really a relevant question in
this discussion.  The driver write will have to work with whatever
his hardware can do, and compensate for less than ideal support with
polling if necessary.

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