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devicekit-disks package

  1. Bug #397734
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 397734

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: can't eject unmounted cdrom with hardware button

So, according to the upstream discussion David Zeuthen recommended to just not lock CD-ROM trays by default. Kernel/userspace already handles prematurely removed USB storage devices reasonably, and with read-only devices like CD-ROMs it is even less of an issue. So we should just set /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/lock to 0 by default.

From my POV, I'd just change procps to ship a new file /etc/sysctl.d/10-cdrom-tray-lock.conf with this setting. Scott, do you have an opinion whether this is reasonable?