Am Montag, 28. September 2009 20:16:44 schrieb Alan Stern: > On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > Wouldn't it be better if the device were removed in a suspended state > > so buffers on storage devices could be flushed? > > That is a userspace detail. The intended mode of operation is that a > program like "eject" will first unmount all filesystems on the device Hm. The device may or may not have a filesystem on it. > and unbind usb-storage (causing buffers to be flushed), and then write How does unbinding usb-storage flush buffers? > to the "remove" attribute. If this is the only way to correctly use the attribute why not make the attribute do what needs to be done to be correct? Regards Oliver -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
