[PATCH] USB mass storage unbind
Brian J. Tarricone
bjt23 at cornell.edu
Tue Jul 31 13:42:44 PDT 2007
Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Wanting to format a USB stick is hardly /that/ much of a niche case, is
> it? There needs to be a state where the device is available to the OS
> but not mounted.
Users shouldn't have to deal with that. The formatting tool should
unmount the device, reformat it, and remount it. As long as both
operations (mount/unmount and eject/unbind) are available through HAL
for the application's use -- not necessarily directly exposed to the
user -- it's fine.
-brian
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