Re: submount?

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 20:30, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 12:02:07PM +0200, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > I've just put some code in HAL to detect whether the eject button is
> > pressed (using MMC-2) so ideally HAL would relay this to gnome-vfs which
> > would emit a PreUnmount signal such that apps closes their files and
> > then it can do the unmount(1), eject(1) dance. Thing is, I don't know
> > how many drives correctly implement this MMC-2 bit, any insight?
> 
> My Dad has an HP drive that does. Its the only one I've ever seen
> 

The only one you seen that it works on? Really? I'm talking about this
piece of code

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0202.0/att-0603/01-cd_poll.c

FWIW, it works on my Liteon CDRW drive (only drive I tested). Jens
Axboe, seems a bit more confident in the availability of this

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0308.3/0511.html

so much in fact that he, uhmm, thinks magicdev should use it.

Thanks,
David