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

["Jim Crilly" <jim@why.dont.jablowme.net>]

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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