On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:37:49AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > 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. Yeah, but 50 seconds isn't the timescale we're talking about here. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
