[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#559562: devicekit-disks: provide a way to disable polling

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

Package: devicekit-disks
Version: 009-2
Severity: normal

Hi,

since the transition to devicekit started, I have to concurrent daemon
running, hal and devkit-disks-daemon (I kind-of fear I'll have at one
point hal, devkit and udisk running but…)

I already disabled polling for hal using the hal-disable-polling
command, but it doesn't seem to exist the same kind of command for
devicekit. So in the end, I have:

root      3064  0.0  0.0  42040   980 ?        S    11:36   0:01 devkit-disks-daemon: polling /dev/hda       
root      5111  0.0  0.0  22044  1224 ?        S    11:59   0:00 hald-addon-storage: no polling on /dev/hda because it is explicitly disabled

I can temporarily disable polling using devkit-disks --inhibit-polling
/dev/hda but that's not a permanent fix. It'd be nice to have the same
kind of tool than hal (where it'd put an udev rule instead of a hal fdi,
I guess).

Cheers,
--
Yves-Alexis

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-rc8-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages devicekit-disks depends on:
ii  libatasmart4      0.17-1                 ATA S.M.A.R.T. reading and parsing
ii  libc6             2.10.2-2               GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3       1.2.16-2               simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2  0.82-2                 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0      2.22.3-1               The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgudev-1.0-0    148-2                  GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libparted1.8-12   1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-5 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii  libpolkit-backend 0.95-1                 PolicyKit backend API
ii  libpolkit-gobject 0.95-1                 PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libsgutils2-2     1.28-2                 utilities for working with generic
ii  libudev0          148-2                  libudev shared library
ii  udev              148-2                  /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages devicekit-disks recommends:
ii  dosfstools                    3.0.6-1    utilities for making and checking 
ii  hdparm                        9.15-1     tune hard disk parameters for high
pn  mtools                        <none>     (no description available)
pn  ntfs-3g                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  ntfsprogs                     <none>     (no description available)
ii  policykit-1                   0.95-1     framework for managing administrat

Versions of packages devicekit-disks suggests:
ii  cryptsetup                 2:1.1.0~rc2-1 configures encrypted block devices
pn  mdadm                      <none>        (no description available)
pn  reiserfsprogs              <none>        (no description available)
pn  xfsprogs                   <none>        (no description available)

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