Unmounting and 'eject' press

[Ikke]

> Hi,
>
> It turns out this was actually quite easy to do, there was a good
> example of how to do it here
>
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0202.0/att-0603/01-cd_poll.c
>
> Only caveat is that is requires MMC-2 drives or higher (all drives
> shipped within the past 3-4 years are MMC-2 compliant), but anyway it is
> now integrated with HAL.
>
> If eject is pressed, while a disc is mounted HAL will emit an
> 'EjectPressed' condition on the HalDevice representing the optical disc.
> In hal-device-manager it looks like this
>
>  Condition EjectPressed,
>   device=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_22_0-disc
>   message =  ['EjectPressed', '/udev/hdc']
>
> Since HAL cowardly refuses to touch policy it's up to higher level
> components to actually do something about it :-)

Jayjay, a big update on this. I did some testing here with my dynosaur,
didnt work as expected. I asked some guys on #love-sources at freenode to do
some testing for me too, results follow, and also ow3n (#freedesktop, and on
this mailing list) helped me further.

First of all, I wrote a little testing program
(http://www.eikke.com/tmp/ejecttest), which gave no usefull results. Later,
me and ow3n tried (and told OneOfOne and sn4ip3r from #love-sources) to run
`hald --daemon=no`, and normal hald daemon with `dbus-monitor --system`
(jay, dbus-monitor actually works now).

These are the results:

1. My reader, 10 years old dunno-what-model-or-brand:
          - when running my testprog: no output on eject pressing
          - when running hald --daemon=no: after all listings, I get
                        [E] linux/block_class_device.c:496 detect_media() :
GPCMD_GET_EVENT_STATUS_NOTIFICATION failed, errno=5
             every x seconds. ow3n says this is due to my reader being too
old.
          - dbus-monitor gives valuable no output

2. ow3n's reader #1
          - (didnt try)
          - same error as me
          - no output on eject pressing
Too old too propably

3. ow3n's reader #2
           - (didnt try)
           - no error!!!
           - no output on eject either. Lazy reader? Seems to be a newer
model tough (DVD reader)

4. sn4ip3r's reader
           - No valuable output
           - No error
           - no output on eject. Lazy one too?

5. OneOfOne's output
           - Didnt run
           - No error
           - Output!!!!
                       signal interface=org.freedesktop.Hal.Device;
member=Condition; sender=:1.10
                       string:EjectPressed
                       string:/dev/hdc

So it *seems* to be working on some models (well, found one ;-)): samsung
cd-rw SW-252

Conclusion: I hope there's another way to get this working, writing software
which only works on one reader out of 5 (ok, drop mine, one out of 4) is not
really user-friendly :-s

Ow3n tought the problem could be due to (and I quote) "the current test
using the GPCMD_GET_EVENT_STATUS_NOTIFICATION command doesn't seem to catch
the eject request even though the ioctl succeeds." Don't ask me, I'm no
hardware expert ;-)

Regards, Ikke


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