[PATCH] remove usage of g_assert() in blockdev
Steev Klimaszewski
steev at gentoo.org
Tue Nov 14 13:43:07 PST 2006
>>> 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.
>
> Does this mean that dbus and hal all have to be in initramfs for distros
> that use a completely dynamic /dev? And have a system dbus session
> started from there?
Not to mention the dependency of HAL on PolicyKit, which requires pam...
or am I missing something here?
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