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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> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.