[PATCH] [RFC] Always run hald as non-root

[David Zeuthen]

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 12:21 +0100, Pozsár Balázs wrote:
> I understand it is hard to do link detection. But isn't hal's main to 
> provide a unified abstraction layer about hardware, exactly because 
> collecting information from lots of places is a hard task, and to do it 
> in one place?
> 
> If this is only a short-term feature removal to let the link detection 
> code settle, I can understand that too.
> 
> Just one little idea: some kind of config switch could be provided until 
> this code is stabilized, to disable it to avoid kernel crashes if you 
> are afraid of that.
> 

Link detection is a can of worms - I think Dan is on this mailing list
so he might chip in (though I think he is out for a few days so it might
take some time) with the exact reasons.

At one point we also had wireless network scanning - we ripped that out
on the grounds that things like that is better placed in separate
frameworks - like NetworkManager. And, boy, I'm glad we did, looking at
the state of wireless networking in Linux :-)

Cheers,
David


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