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

[Michael Biebl]

Frans Pop wrote:
> 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.
> 

Sjoerd, when are the information and policy merged? Could it be, that
thas happens after hald-addon-storage was forked?
This would explain, that lshal lists
storage.media_check_enabled=FALSE, but hald_addon_storage is running for
the device.

Cheers,
Michael

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