On Monday, October 11, 2010 4:11:56 pm Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:03:26AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > With CD drives you are also rather stuck in that the existing ABI for > > controlling CD drives (e.g. ioctls in 3rd party software to eject a CD) are > > done on the /dev/cdX device. Ideally enclosures for removable media would > > be separate devices from the removable media itself, but a lot of existing > > software for CD's would break if this changes now. > > Right, but I still wonder if we could execute provider orphan and > retaste on various events like media insertion or removal. If media is > removed we orphan provider and recreate it, which will trigger retaste, > and this is fine there will be nothing to read from or write to (we will > simply return errors as we do now, I think). This way we nicely > co-operate with GEOM, but also with other tools that don't require media > to be present (if there is no media devfs entry still exists and handles > ioctls, it just return errors on read requests).
Oh, I would be fine with that. I was just explaining the legacy reasons for why we can't do the obvious thing and have separate devices for media and media holders. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
