[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#530023: should not poll non-removable devices at all

[martin f krafft]

Seriously, HAL should just not poll at all. It should *definitely*
not poll non-removable devices:

  root     22289  0.0  0.0  22020   344 ?        S    Aug27   0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/hda (ev
  root     22290  0.0  0.0  22020   348 ?        S    Aug27   0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/hdb (ev
  root     22291  0.0  0.0  22020   344 ?        S    Aug27   0:02 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sdd (ev
  root     22292  0.0  0.0  22020   344 ?        S    Aug27   0:01 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sde (ev
  root     22293  0.0  0.0  22020   344 ?        S    Aug27   0:01 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sdg (ev
  root     22294  0.0  0.0  22020   344 ?        S    Aug27   0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sdf (ev

And while I am glad to see that this can be explicitly disabled
(which is the wrong way around), I don't think I should have to
allocate 22Mb of virtual memory to let me know via the process
table:

  root     22295  0.0  0.0  22020   332 ?        S    Aug27   0:00 hald-addon-storage: no polling on /dev/f

Yes, HAL is going away. But maybe until then it could be a little
contained and not force its fangs all over?

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