On 02/13/2012 05:51 PM, Mandeep Sandhu wrote: >>>>> greg k-h >>>> I am trying to find out if any storage disk is connected to USB port >>>> and get its mount so that I an encrypt that mount with encrypted >>>> filesystem. >>> Great, then do that from userspace, like it is done today. Or do you >>> have a problem with how things are done today with encrypted >>> filesystems? If so, why? >>> >>> greg k-h >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Kernelnewbies mailing list >>> Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies >> Hi Greg, >> The reason I went for kernel module is to get the device add >> notification. However once I get the notification, I can have netlink > Well, thats not a good enough reason to go to kernel space! :) > > Have you looked at Udev? It nicely handles device attach/detach events > (hotplug events) from userspace. You should probably look at using it > for your purpose. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udev > > HTH, > -mandeep > Yes. I should have looked into libudev and libsysfs which I am doing now. :) Regarding going to kernel , I thought that would be help me in controlling the device in a better way (where I can enable or disable the data transfer interfaces preventing the data copy (if at all thats possible). Regards, Abhijit Pawar _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
