On Wed 2009-11-18 20:07:12, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:03:21PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > Sure, but what's wrong with reading that file every 50 seconds? Almost > > all boxes poll for media changes of optical drives and usb card > > readers anyway, so it's not that we are not doing stuff like this > > already. > > We poll for media because there's no event-based way of avoiding it - in > this case there is. ...when you add overhead to every disk operation. I'd say that polling once in 50 seconds is preferable to that. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
