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Date:      Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:24:21 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
Cc:        ticso@cicely.de
Subject:   Re: Reattach/redetect allways connected umass device - is it possible ? 
Message-ID:  <40098.1112084661@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:16:05 %2B0200." <20050329081605.GA57775@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> 

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In message <20050329081605.GA57775@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>, Stijn Hoop writes:
>
>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.

GEOM has that mechanism already, what is lacking is drivers noticing
and telling GEOM.

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Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
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