On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 23:00, David Zeuthen <dav...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 11:41 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> My wife has a embroidery machine that acts as a USB memory stick when >> plugged into a computer through its USB port. It has a truly stunning >> read speed of 15kB/s (yes, really), and it turns out that both udev and >> DeviceKit react very badly to devices that are slow, because they read >> too much data off it. > > Thanks for the patch - I just applied it: > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/DeviceKit/DeviceKit-disks/commit/?id=c8076f0095ce85b10b287e6c5d92f8b5520018f2 > > As Kay said on the util-linux-ng list, the plan is to use blkid for this > in the future - so at some point udisks-part-id will go away. > > Actually, I *think* the code is already in blkid for this - but IIRC a > few details such as partition flags are still missing (see e.g. > http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/gdu-edit-partition.png for how this > information is used)
Yep, we are close to make all this happen now, and solve it properly with all logic in one place, which is util-linux's blkid, which will be used in all default udev installations. The current DeviceKit-disks part should be obsolete before its next release. Thanks, Kay _______________________________________________ devkit-devel mailing list devkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/devkit-devel
