Re: [Utopia] [patch] mount/unmount when starting/stopping

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 13:17, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 10:45 -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 09:42, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > 
> > >  4. We no longer listen on the EjectPressed signal from HAL - this
> > >     is removed from HAL as only a tiny fraction of drives implement it
> > 
> > I must've missed the discussion on this on the HAL list.  Why should
> > this be removed just because many devices dont' support it?  Why cripple
> > the devices that do because of ones that don't?  If I go out of my way
> > to get hardware that supports (Apple hardware, perhaps?) it should be
> > able to work appropriately, yes?
> 
> Well, there were some discussion a long time ago on the hal list on how
> many drives that supports it and the outcome was that not a long of
> drives did. 
> 
> The rationale for removing this was to reduce the number of codepaths
> and use as little of the features of the hardware/driver as possible. If
> you remember a few years back there was a bug in an automounter
> (supermount IIRC) that broke the firmware of LG drives because some
> wellknown MMC command was selected by the vendor of the drive to mean
> 'upload firmware'.

OK.  So assuming my hardware wasn't designed by idiots, and I'd really
like to be able to just hit Eject and have everything work, is it
currently possible without heavily patching HAL, GVM, etc?

Besides, given the device info files, couldn't HAL just support the
Eject event, but have it turned off by default, and then let known
devices that support it enable it?

Is there a utility anywhere to test if a drive supports sending the
event?

> 
> Apple drives, I dunno, but I note that the eject button on my Powerbook
> is actually part of the keyboard. That's pretty clever.

So how would that work in the current framework, then?  Would the keymap
just call 'eject' ?  Are all the appropriate apps (Nautilus, GVM, etc.)
ready for this, or are they expecting HAL to handle it?

> 
> I hope this clarifies.
> 
> Cheers,
> David
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Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>
AwesomePlay Productions, Inc.