Reattach/redetect allways connected umass device - is it possible ?

[Scott Long]

Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Mar 24), Julian Elischer said:
> 
>>John Baldwin wrote:
>>
>>>On Mar 23, 2005, at 9:00 PM, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Julian Elischer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>eject should imply a detach..
>>>>>i.e. I think your patch should call the detach code from the eject 
>>>>>code.
>>>>
>>>>Eject is for devices that support removable media.
>>
>>that doesn't mean that an eject shouldn't do all teh work for a
>>detach as well.
> 
> 
> I would be extremely surprised if a "camcontrol eject cd0" removed
> /dev/cd0 :)  Eject is for devices whose media can be removed, but the
> device itself stays.
> 
> Or are you just saying detach should do an eject (possibly a stop also)
> first?
> 

Let me reinforce this since there seems to be quite a bit of confusion.
The 'stop' and 'eject' actions of camcontrol operate in the context of
how they are defined in the SCSI world.  That is, they send a particular
command to the target that makes the target do the intended action.
They do __not__ imply that CAM will detach the logical device, flush the
buffer-cache, etc.  There is a whole lot less magic here than I think
that everyone is hoping for.

Scott