Re: [Evms-devel] Re: EVMS Submission for 2.5

[Oliver Neukum]

> All devices that have a "struct device" (which should be about
> everything these days, if not, please let me know), cause a
> /sbin/hotplug event to happen.  This event says what type of device was
> added or removed, and includes the location of the device in the
> driverfs tree so that userspace can then determine what it wants to do
> with this device.

device != medium
There's a need to report that as well. The current hotplugging model
needs some more types of events before it is ready for all types of
applications.
In fact a change of medium can radically alter features of a device,
eg. from ro to rw.

	Regards
		Oliver