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From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
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Subject: Re: GEOM weirdness with SD flash reader?
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M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <4688878F.20406@root.org>
>             Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> writes:
> : Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> : > In message <4688830C.6050701@root.org>, Nate Lawson writes:
> : > 
> : >> 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.
> : > 
> : > I would call that "The Linux Solution" :-)
> : > 
> : > The right place to poll is from scsi_da.
> : 
> : I disagree.  Once scsi_da found the media, it would then somehow need to
> : notify devd (i.e. to automount).  If both functions are in devd, the
> : loop becomes:
> : 
> : while (1) {
> :     camcontrol tur mydev;
> :     if (found)
> :         notify_automount;
> :         break;
> :     sleep 3;
> : }
> 
> This doesn't belong in devd.
> 
> Robert has patches to bring new geom entries into the realm of devd.

URL?

-- 
Nate