linux-kernel - Re: CD tray closes spontaneously after opening it

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Message-Id: <200809301435.49512.elendil@planet.nl>
Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:35:48 +0200
From:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Tony Vroon <tony@...on.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: CD tray closes spontaneously after opening it

On Tuesday 30 September 2008, Frans Pop wrote:
> Hmm, in Debian unstable /etc/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules
> also has:
> # skip removable ide devices, because open(2) on them causes an events
> loop KERNEL=="hd*[!0-9]", ATTR{removable}=="1",
> DRIVERS=="ide-cs|ide-floppy", \ GOTO="persistent_storage_end"
>
> I wonder if we've got a simple case of a typo here: ide-cs instead of
> ide-cd? However, there is such a thing as an ide-cs driver (legacy
> driver for PCMCIA IDE/ATA disk cards).
> But it does seem logical that rule should also cover IDE CDs...

Well, in upstream udev 128 the comment for that rule has been changed to:
# never access non-cdrom removable ide devices, the drivers are causing
# event loops on open()

So it looks like that's not it either.
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