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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 19:34:38 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
To: Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>
cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to fix CDROM/DVD eject mess?
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > I thought that fixing the udev behavior would solve the problem. But
> > it turned out that I was too naive. A bigger problem is that all
> > user-space stuff misinterprets DISK_EVENT_EJECT_REQUEST event: they
> > see this as if the disk is *ready* to be ejected. KDE, for example,
> > dismisses the DVD icon when it receives this event even if it's still
> > mounted.
>
> It is not really about being "ready to eject", if the user presses the
> button, the user does not want to wait for anything else than actually
> ejecting the media as fast as possible. It is the same as ripping out
> a USB cable. It needs to work, no matter if things are mounted or
> busy.
All the technical details aside, this is a bold statement -- how do you
know what the user actually wants?
I for one want to see the medium locked if in use, just as it has been
since 1990s. If I wanted to do an emergency eject (the equivalent of
ripping out a USB cable), then I would use a paperclip in the manual eject
hole. So you've got a counterexample to your assertion now. All people
are not the same.
All I want to say here is there seems to be a policy hidden somewhere
here where it should not. It's up to the user to decide what suits him or
her. We just need to give them the right tools.
> It is just a hardware button event which should not be masked out for
> rather weird reasons.
Precisely, and I should have a way to control it. If I used a GUI, I
might want the event to pop up a window with the list of current users
(accessing processes) of the device, perhaps asking if to terminate them.
Or flip a relay to make my kettle boil water.
FWIW,
Maciej
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