[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#462953: Bug#462953: hal: Continues to poll DVD devices after setting media_check_enabled to false

[Frans Pop]

Hi Michael,

On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Run hal-disable-polling --device /dev/scd0
> The hald-addon-storage process should then be stopped automatically, and
> you should have a correct fdi file in /etch/hal/fdi/information.

Yes, I know that that works (I discovered that fairly shortly after sending 
the BR). But it still seems to me to be a bug that the method I used does 
not work.

The problem seems to be that when the polling is disabled 
in /etc/hal/information/.. it does work, but when it is disabled 
in /etc/hal/policy/.. it does not.

And when I checked the hal documentation I found absolutely no indication of 
why that should be so.

And even if using policy is wrong, hal should not behave so inconsistent as 
shown in my example: stubbornly insisting that polling is disabled when it 
isn't.

Cheers,
FJP
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