Phil Endecott wrote:
Dear Experts,
The proc/bus/usb API has an ioctl that can arrange for the application
to receive a signal when the device is disconnected. Is there anything
similar for the SCSI generic (or other SCSI) APIs?
Assuming that there isn't, I think I need to either poll the device to
see if it's still there, or listen on a netlink socket for a removal
uevent, or I need to find the USB device corresponding to the sg device
that I'm using and use its signal-on-removal ioctl. In the latter case,
is there a way to traverse from an sg device's /sys directory to the
corresponding usb device's /sys directory? /sys seems to be full of
symlinks but I can't find the one that I need in this case.
Basically I have a fairly simple user-space driver for a USB SCSI device
that uses the SCSI-generic API, and I want it to terminate tidily when
the device is detached.
Phil,
If you are using the lk 2.6 series (from around 2.6.15) then
you could use the inotify mechanism (look at 'man inotify'
to start with). For example, you could monitor the deletion of
/sys/class/scsi_generic/sg1/dev or the corresponsing device
node: /dev/sg1 .
Doug Gilbert
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