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| author | Lukas Prediger <lumip@lumip.de> | 2021-09-14 01:09:42 +0200 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2021-09-15 04:05:26 +0200 |
| commit | 67f1e027c27054e641584655020a417eaac9cb3a (patch) | |
| tree | cd436e8c697009cc6def17e4b77cd28503029ac3 /Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl | |
| parent | Merge branch 'gcc-min-version-5.1' (make gcc-5.1 the minimum version) (diff) | |
| download | linux-67f1e027c27054e641584655020a417eaac9cb3a.tar.xz linux-67f1e027c27054e641584655020a417eaac9cb3a.zip | |
drivers/cdrom: improved ioctl for media change detection
The current implementation of the CDROM_MEDIA_CHANGED ioctl relies on
global state, meaning that only one process can detect a disc change
while the ioctl call will return 0 for other calling processes afterwards
(see bug 213267).
This introduces a new cdrom ioctl, CDROM_TIMED_MEDIA_CHANGE, that
works by maintaining a timestamp of the last detected disc change instead
of a boolean flag: Processes calling this ioctl command can provide
a timestamp of the last disc change known to them and receive
an indication whether the disc was changed since then and the updated
timestamp.
I considered fixing the buggy behavior in the original
CDROM_MEDIA_CHANGED ioctl but that would require maintaining state
for each calling process in the kernel, which seems like a worse
solution than introducing this new ioctl.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Prediger <lumip@lumip.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210912191207.74449-1-lumip@lumip.de
Signed-off-by: Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210913230942.1188-1-phil@philpotter.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/cdrom.rst | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/cdrom.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/cdrom.rst index 3b4c0506de46..bac5bbf93ca0 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/cdrom.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/cdrom.rst @@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ are as follows: CDROM_SELECT_SPEED Set the CD-ROM speed CDROM_SELECT_DISC Select disc (for juke-boxes) CDROM_MEDIA_CHANGED Check is media changed + CDROM_TIMED_MEDIA_CHANGE Check if media changed + since given time + (struct cdrom_timed_media_change_info) CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS Get tray position, etc. CDROM_DISC_STATUS Get disc type, etc. CDROM_CHANGER_NSLOTS Get number of slots |