hal: Branch 'master'

[Danny Kukawka]

On Montag, 27. August 2007, David Zeuthen wrote:
> New commits:
> diff-tree 60d18a1852680559c8db96e25e09e62048ad3669 (from
> 9aa4c3acde9e4d37fb5d2f9c39a76fec568111c2) Author: David Zeuthen
> <davidz at redhat.com>
> Date:   Mon Aug 27 14:11:43 2007 -0400
>
>     use direct connection if available
>
>     Without this NM's excessive calls into GetPower() for wlan killswitch
>     results in a lot of NameOwnerChanged signals and unique bus name
>     usage.

Hi,

we found this problem also already. IMO NM should find a way to stop this 
excessive polling on GetPower(). This cause with every call at least 3 forks 
(hal-system-killswitch-get-power, hal-system-lcd-get-brightness-linux and 
hal-ipw-killswitch-linux/dellWirelessCtl). 

On the other hand we may could make this a addon, but for this we have to 
write our own code for dellWirelessCtl. 

Danny