Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Michael Biebl wrote: >> 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. > > powertop encourages to disable polling, so it is a big point. I agree with you in general, but I doubt polling every 2 or 16 seconds will make any significant difference power consumption wise. > "Majority of users it just works", but how many of such user will use this feature? How shall I answer that? I know that I myself use auto-mounting extensively and also don't expect my father to type someting like "mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom" > Is it really needed? 10-15 year ago hardware and kernel started to support > "new media detection" on floppy disk (and IIRC on CD), so real hardware and kernel > should support this sort of "hotplug", without polling, or I miss completely the > issue? See the hal-disable-polling man page. In short: hardware support for MMC media change notification is broken. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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