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regarding hal: doesnt eject removable USB devices on unmount
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Package: hal
Version: 0.5.8.1-4
Severity: normal


Hi,

Some USB devices tell when they can be "safely" unplugged because they
detect they have been "ejected" by the PC. When unmounting devices in
Nautilus, that does not happen. One has to manually "sudo eject
/dev/..." to have the device properly tell it can be unplugged.

HTH,
        Xav

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Debian Release: 4.0
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  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-1-k7
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Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.99        Add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                         1.0.0-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.0.0-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.71-3      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1                    1.95.8-3.3  XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.12.4-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage1              0.5.8.1-4   Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1                      0.5.8.1-4   Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libusb-0.1-4                 2:0.1.12-2  userspace USB programming library
ii  libvolume-id0                0.100-2.2   libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base                     3.1-19      Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  pciutils                     1:2.2.4-1   Linux PCI Utilities
ii  udev                         0.100-2.2   /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils                     0.72-7      USB console utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  eject                         2.1.4-2.1  ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer

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On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 18:11 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 17:30 +0100, Sam Morris wrote: 
> > Do you have any references about the correct way to safely remove USB
> > devices on Linux?
> 
> Apparently it's not possible anymore. See that mail from Greg K-H:

Thanks for doing the additional investigation! I turned up the following
entry from 'Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt' in the Linux
source code:

        What:   dev->power.power_state
        When:   July 2007
        Why:    Broken design for runtime control over driver power states, 
confusing
                driver-internal runtime power management with:  mechanisms to 
support
                system-wide sleep state transitions; event codes that 
distinguish
                different phases of swsusp "sleep" transitions; and userspace 
policy
                inputs.  This framework was never widely used, and most 
attempts to
                use it were broken.  Drivers should instead be exposing 
domain-specific
                interfaces either to kernel or to userspace.
        Who:    Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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