[Scottish] button

[Mike Quin]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 04:34:46PM +0100 or thereabouts, Huard, Elise - D C&W Consultant wrote:

> on my home system, when linux is booted, when i press the button on either
> of my CD/DVD drives, it doesn't react (doesn't open, anyway).
> I wondered if a tweak was possible so that the button
> 1. unmounts the filesystem, whatever it may be
> 2. opens the wee drawer
> maybe one of you has done it ?

This was discussed on linux-kernel many moons ago, and as I recall the
only way you could do this is to poll the drive constantly to see if
the button had been pressed. This was generally considered to be a bad
thing to do, and as such was never implemented (at least in the
mainstream kernel).

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