Re: Removeable Media, partitions and devfs?

["Kevin P. Fleming" <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > This should cover almost all cases, except for the most important
> > one: when the user manually ejects the media and replaces it with
> > identically sized media. There is no way to currently catch that,
> > since the media is not serialized. There are ATA commands to monitor
> > this sort of thing, but they will require Andre's new ide subsystem
> > for implementation without tons of new code.
>
> OK, so that's not a devfs-related problem, right? Changing calls to
> devfs won't help with this last problem?
>

Right, this is not devfs-related. It is somewhat related, if we actually
wanted the partition entries to disappear/reappear without the user having
to force a readdir() of the device directory (which is what my original
patch did), but that is no longer necessary.