<bj...@mork.no> wrote: >Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> writes: > >> See the hal-disable-polling man page. In short: hardware support for MMC >> media >> change notification is broken. > >Err. You are using the "broken firmware" argument both ways. > >You should follow your own advice regarding the drives spinning up: >Implement a blacklist of devices with broken MMC media change >notification and only poll devices in this blacklist.
The majority of drives would be in that blacklist. This is clearly not a scalable approach. I'm not aware of any PATA drives that provide notification of media change without any polling being involved. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.de...@srcf.ucam.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
