A minor problem w/ access to my flash drive

[Pozsar Balazs]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 04:42:33PM +0600, Alexey Morozov wrote:
> >The problem is, if you plug in an usb card reader you do not get 
> >notification about plugging/unplugging card into/from it. That's why hal 
> > 
> >
> No, that's not always true. Just a few hours ago I plugged in a friend's 
> CF into my card reader and, voila, I have 'magically appeared' 
> /media/storage_sda1 and corresponding /dev/sda1.

That happened exactly because hal polled that device.

> >Maybe hal could have a list about non-card-readers, and not poll them? 
> >(whitelisting). That would seem a good idea to me.
> >
> >So it would not poll devices it knows it doesnt need to.
> >
> I guess there should be a _blacklist_. At least for me ;-).

No. Hal should poll devices. If it knows for sure, that this is not 
needed for a particular device, than maybe polling could be disabled.
But not the other way around.



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