KDE Volume Manager not receiving mount points from HAL - it can't cope!

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

i'm messing with HAL hal-0.2.97+cvs20040907$  and with KVM and kde from
latest cvs.

the issue is that a usb floppy drive has a mount device of /dev/sda
and a mount point generated in ftsab /media/floppy1 that isn't then
passed over by HAL to KVM.

KVM goes "oh, it's a floppy, and we don't know its mountpoint, hmmm"
and generates a filename "floppy:/" for it.

when a user accesses the Floppy, KDE goes "floppy:/" ah ha, i know what
to do with that, let's go access /dev/fd0 which just smells of cow poo
because the actual location is /dev/sda.

lshal shows no entries, in fact, looking at block_class_device.c
i find that it reads /etc/mtab quite happily.


under the normal KDE system (mountwatcher, disabling KVM) it
works great because mountwatcher reads /etc/mtab and /etc/fstab
and wow, gosh, other than the problem of forcing the users to
deal with an "unmount" concept, somewhere under the hood KDE
goes "oh, this is /dev/sda, and it's /media/floppy1, and it
isn't mounted, so let's mount it".

... but i don't _want_ to use mountwatcher because then i would
have no chance to have a CD or DVD or camera be fired up automatically
from a hotplug event.


so.

is the solution that i should hack KVM to read /etc/fstab?

should i hack KVM to read /etc/fstab?

should i hack HAL to write an /etc/autofs.hal file and hack KVM
to read it?

should i hack the KDE source (kioslaves/devices/kdemodule)
to blop the functionality of KVM into the kdebase mountwatcher?

l.

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