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    SubjectRe: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
    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.

    Jim.
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