Please fix bug #1852 (hald causes SYM53C8xx SCSI errors, device disconnects + GNOME hang)

[Kay Sievers]

On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 12:42 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 13:06 +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > Please, can someone have a look at bug #1852 *now*? This has been
> > haunting users of the fine 53C8XX SCSI adapters for much too long.
> > Thanks a bunch in advance.
> > 
> > Quoting from Bugzilla #1852 - this should give sufficient information to
> > fix the bug. As it totally bogs down my machine if I log into GNOME
> > after boot-up, I've bumped Bugzilla severity up one level, to critical.
> 
>  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1852
> 
> Yeah, this should probably be fixed ASAP, it shouldn't be too difficult.
> Does anyone have a patch? Otherwise I'll look at it tonight (EDT). Then
> I'll do a new 0.4.8 release too.
> 
> Btw, this shouldn't affect hal 0.5.x as we don't use libsysfs there. It
> may affect udev - Kay?

We've fixed udev's libsysfs not to read _everything_ it finds, a while
ago. udev will not cause this error. :)
But every other user of libsysfs is expected to trigger it, cause the
fixes are not released by now. They are only in the CVS of libsysfs.

SUSE 9.3 has 0.4.7 with the bad libsysfs an hwinfo and other tools too.
They all need to be fixed.

For the old HAL we may just patch our included libsysfs to skip any file
that is named "config"?

Kay

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