Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030192AbWBCSiu (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 13:38:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030196AbWBCSit (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 13:38:49 -0500 Received: from hummeroutlaws.com ([12.161.0.3]:26385 "EHLO atpro.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030192AbWBCSis (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 13:38:48 -0500 From: "Jim Crilly" Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 13:37:19 -0500 To: Olivier Galibert , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) Message-ID: <20060203183719.GB11241@voodoo> Mail-Followup-To: Olivier Galibert , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <43E1EA35.nail4R02QCGIW@burner> <20060202161853.GB8833@voodoo> <787b0d920602020917u1e7267c5lbea5f02182e0c952@mail.gmail.com> <20060202210949.GD10352@voodoo> <43E27792.nail54V1B1B3Z@burner> <787b0d920602021827m4890fbf4j24d110dc656d2d3a@mail.gmail.com> <43E374CF.nail5CAMKAKEV@burner> <20060203155349.GA9301@voodoo> <20060203180421.GA57965@dspnet.fr.eu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060203180421.GA57965@dspnet.fr.eu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1193 Lines: 27 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/