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 -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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