On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 08:55, Andreas Metzler <ametzler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Kay Sievers <kay.sievers <at> vrfy.org> writes: > [...] >> Here comes a new udev version. > [...] >> udev 152 > [...] >> The option "all_partitions" was removed from udev. This should not be >> needed for usual hardware. Udev can not safely make assumptions >> about non-existing partition major/minor numbers, and therefore no >> longer provide this unreliable and unsafe option. > [...] > > is there a officially suggested replacement for "all_partitions"? > USB-cardreaders are not "unusual", but nevertheless usually do not report > media-changes (See > http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html#example-usbcardreader). No, not in udev. The main device node needs to be polled periodically. This is usually done by udisks, a simple 'touch' will also do. Currently it's being worked on to add polling to the kernel itself. Kay -- 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
