[PATCH] remove usage of g_assert() in blockdev

[Kay Sievers]

On 11/13/06, David Zeuthen <david at fubar.dk> wrote:
> Going forward we probably want to rethink how we do coldplug and ensure
> it's synchronized with the rest of the system. Which probably means
> recommending distributors to start HAL just before udev (without any
> sysfs coldplug) and then relying on udev's coldplugging code to emit the
> right uevents. But there are probably subtble issues to doing that;
> you'd have to ensure that all entries that HAL care about in sysfs
> actually triggers uevents. That's definitely not true today. Kay?

We can get all what we need from udev. The coldplug-code in udev and
HAL is indentical. The reworked HAL coldplug (current git) is almost a
plain copy of the udevtrigger (version 102) code.

But we would need to move to /lib/hal and /sbin with all the tools,
because some (confused) people think that /usr should be on a
different partition, or worse behind a different storage adapter or
even on nfs. I'm totally convinced that this is crazy, but I'm almost
never able to make my point with these guys. :)

> Starting HAL late and doing coldplug while other processes are loading
> drivers (cause uevents to be triggered) is just too dangerous and leads
> to bugs like these I think. Danny's fix is appropriate right now, it's
> probably better not to crash and just have one device less than to
> totally crash.

Right. We should give it a try to move HAL to the rootfs, and
integrate it into the udev colplug process. It sounds like a nice
option, even when we break some silly setups, it's probably worth to
do it that way.

Kay