Messages in this thread | | | From | "Jim Crilly" <> | Date | Fri, 3 Feb 2006 13:37:19 -0500 | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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On 02/03/06 07:04:21PM +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 10:53:50AM -0500, Jim Crilly wrote: > > A bug in HAL is not a bug in Linux. If the HAL people need to make some > > changes to their daemon to make it play nice with cdrecord and the like > > that's fine, but telling people here makes no sense. > > Actually, since at that point in time HAL is the only way to do device > discovery with the linux kernel, problems in HAL are problems in > linux. There is *no* other way than HAL to do the mapping between a > point in the sysfs tree and a device node in /dev[1]. > > OG. > > [1] Unless you consider stating every node in /dev acceptable just to > find the correct major/minor.
It's not about device discovery, hald is polling removable devices every 2s to see if new media was inserted and when it polls a CD drive that's currently burning a disc it causes problems. It's documented in Debian bug #262678.
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