letting glabel recognise a media change

[Doug Barton]

On 9/29/2010 3:28 PM, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> On 9/29/2010 2:45 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 30/09/2010 00:12 Alexander Best said the following:
>>> hi there,
>>>
>>> i wanted to ask if it would be possible to asjust glabel so that e.g.
>>> inserting
>>> a new media into a dvd-drive gets recognised and glabel displays the
>>> lablel
>>> right away.
>> Yes, of course, as soon as we have in kernel a programmatic way to
>> know that
>> media as changed.
>> We don't have one right now...
>>
>
> What announcement API would you like to add?
>
> If something like that was in place, I assure you that things would
> start to use it very quickly.

To what extent is HAL relevant here? I was sort of ambivalent about 
using it in FreeBSD, but my recent experimentation with ubuntu is 
starting to change my mind.


Doug

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