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

[Michael Biebl]

tags 462953 pending
thanks

Michael Biebl wrote:
> 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.
> 

I just noticed, that this was fixed a few days ago in the upstream git
repository. A todays snapshot now correctly disables polling, if the fdi
file is in /etc/hal/fdi/policy (i.e. storage.media_check_enabled=FALSE)

0.5.11 is about to be released soon, so I mark this bug as pending.

Cheers,
Michael

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