From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1STyDX-00015f-PS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 16:33:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 30CA4E0860; Mon, 14 May 2012 16:33:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eagle.jhcloos.com (eagle.jhcloos.com [207.210.242.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DA08E0841 for ; Mon, 14 May 2012 16:32:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eagle.jhcloos.com (Postfix, from userid 10) id EF8DC40177; Mon, 14 May 2012 16:32:28 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=jhcloos.com; s=eagle; t=1337013173; bh=1A0abKUo1TmtGe8ECNQDT3jUDVpMYssWPPlvRPMfJJ4=; h=From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=Nz7BlaQP5P/giQnGWT2GvzURnODCQ3grLupk5Wiewaqf+2wwZquZgNwD34XKnkcfA JXdDiOEx4isdJ3cnLJehddysjkMEHS1nuSMmZTtkx6ofWoqAiqKtE0UD2Ps0iCjG1n bwqQ5Qw/uAfJ2/XdfWsYduji9pbh1f58evb2ah8Q= Received: by carbon.jhcloos.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 9226736004C; Mon, 14 May 2012 16:31:25 +0000 (UTC) From: James Cloos To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stability of /sys api In-Reply-To: <20120514075353.GB5819@waltdnes.org> (Walter Dnes's message of "Mon, 14 May 2012 03:53:53 -0400") References: <20120514075353.GB5819@waltdnes.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQAgMAAABinRfyAAAACVBMVEX///8ZGXBQKKnCrDQ3 AAAAJElEQVQImWNgQAAXzwQg4SKASgAlXIEEiwsSIYBEcLaAtMEAADJnB+kKcKioAAAAAElFTkSu QmCC Copyright: Copyright 2012 James Cloos OpenPGP: ED7DAEA6; url=http://jhcloos.com/public_key/0xED7DAEA6.asc OpenPGP-Fingerprint: E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6 Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 12:31:25 -0400 Message-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Hashcash: 1:30:120514:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org::JeWBt1TCAIfBhEFv:000000000000000000000000000000000JI0Al X-Archives-Salt: 3fe5c0f5-981a-465a-9cce-9749b5a21f0e X-Archives-Hash: 8835fcc6ebf1452a04cca2c3072b57bf WD> cat /sys/block/sda/removable WD> 0 Note that a 0 there does not imply that the device cannot hotplug. My USB drive reports 0. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6