On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Michael Biebl wrote: > > 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.
It does. It won't be much, but still... in any proper new laptop, that drive will have a non-broken firmware that does SATA power-saving and AN, and you are waking it up. Don't touch an optical drive that is quiescent. Just don't do it. Especially not on servers (where you NEVER want anything to happen without explicit permission) and laptops. > > "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" You just add by default device icons for all the removable media to the desktop or to a notification area, and do the media check if the user tries to access the device in the first place (as well as the path where it would normally be mounted, such as /media/cdrom and /media/dvd), or uses the icon to mount, "browse", etc. ALL non-ubber-light desktop environments support the above, and have done so for a while. So, it has never been an issue of using the CLI. If you want to enhance that support (for all I know it might have been done already), you could probably add a menu entry to those icons to "automatically detect inserted media", have it default to OFF, and enable hal polling when needed, if it is changed to ON. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
