Comment 30 for bug 404185

(In reply to comment #1)

> DriveEject() is sufficient on iPod and Kindle to make the "unsafe to remove
> blabla" warning go away.

Right, that's why I wondered why drive detaching was necessary. Just as a way to "clean up" and also reduce power consumption, or whether some devices really need it. (Just in case we need to disable can_detach right before a release, when time gets tight :) ).

> Maybe we can look at the usb interface classes to avoid ejecting USB connected
> card readers? I also think the DMI data tells you whether a particular usb port
> has an external receptable - I remember Kay talking about that (adding to Cc).

That would be nice. The original report already has an udev dump (http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29486956/UdevDb.txt):

P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-3/1-3:1.0/host2/target2:0:0/2:0:0:0/block/sdb
E: ID_VENDOR=Generic-
E: ID_VENDOR_ENC=Generic-
E: ID_VENDOR_ID=0bda
E: ID_MODEL=Multi-Card
E: ID_MODEL_ENC=Multi-Card\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20
E: ID_MODEL_ID=0158
E: ID_TYPE=disk
E: ID_INSTANCE=0:0
E: ID_BUS=usb
E: ID_USB_INTERFACES=:080650:

> Please also ask the original reporter for output of dmidecode and
> 'tree /sys'.

Done, will report back when data arrives.

Thanks!