0.5.8 goals and TODO list updated

[Kevin Ottens]

Le vendredi 4 août 2006 02:09, David Zeuthen a écrit :
> and feel free to send mail if you
>
>  1. have additional items you think should be on the list
>
>  2. have comments about what we want to finish we 0.5.8. Specifically
>     it would be great if Richard or someone else could look at the
>     TODO about the VideoAdapterPM stuff - I haven't really followed it.

Not sure it fits in any of the above comment categories you provided, but 
since I've one...

In the TODO you wrote:
"- Provide mechanism for making an application inhibit polling of a drive."

Shouldn't HAL use the Lock()/UnLock() mechanism for this? It's already here, 
and as an application developer if I can get a device locked I would expect 
it to be *exclusively mine*. It means that polling shouldn't occur while I 
have the lock (also means that the eject button does nothing as you already 
hinted). If we go with such a route the only work left is to make addons stop 
polling a device when an application holds the lock on it.

Just my 0.02 <put your favorite currency here>.

Regards.
-- 
Kévin 'ervin' Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net
"Ni le maître sans disciple, Ni le disciple sans maître,
Ne font reculer l'ignorance."
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