Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

[Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>]

Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 05:52:41PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Roger Leigh wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:55:15PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>>> hal does not poll removable disks, it does though poll cd-rom drives for new
>>>> media and afaik there is no way around that if you want automount for cdrom
>>>> drives to work
>>> Spinning up the CD drive every 30 seconds is simply not an acceptable
>>> "solution".  If that's the best HAL can do, it should be disabled by
>>> default, and users will simply have to select the device by hand; we're
>>> only talking about automatic mounting here, after all.
>> First, polling the cd drive for new media should not spin it up. If it does it
>> is most likely a kernel/driver or firmware bug.
> 
> So the bug is in a kernel driver, possibly.  But, it's still hal
> triggering the bug by the continual polling.
> 
>> Second, you can very easily disable this behaviour: man hal-disable-polling
> 
> Great, but it's still not the default behaviour.  Does every
> user need to find out how to disable it after they become sufficiently
> annoyed by the constant spinning up of their CD drive?

Why should *every* user need to find out? Seems to me as if you are exaggerating
in order to make a point. For the majority of users it just works, that's why it
is the default.

Michael

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