hald reading block devices

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 03:21:48PM +0200, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Hmm, IIRC hal does basically pretty much the same as magicdev. Would the
> newer media stuff mean that we can indeed detect media changes without
> ruining everything?

There's stuff in the specification for being told that the user pushed
the button but the drive door was locked. Not many drives appear to support
this. Some HP drives do.
 
> Btw, Alan, please file a bug against hal so we can it to work with your
> cd changer or at least make sure that it doesn't screw anything up the
> way you describe.

Sure - filed (#130649)