Subject: Re: detachable device: stuck in biowait
To: M. Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
From: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/28/2002 22:38:21
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On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 08:28:53PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> Actually, with pcmcia, you know AFTER the device has been ejected.
> Once you get the notification, the device is gone and isn't coming
> back anytime soon (unless the user immediately reinserts the card).
> By the time you get the notification, it is too late to flush buffers,
> etc.

Sure, but a unmount(2) with MNT_FORCE set should still work in that
state...

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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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