[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#456214: Patch to prevent hal from causing wakeups

[brian m. carlson]

On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 05:58:24PM +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
>Unfortunately with this patch, iff some other program called
>CDROM_MEDIA_CHANGED then hal won't detect the change...

Well, the current method is equally broken.  If the tray is closed and 
the drive doesn't support CDROM_MEDIA_CHANGED, it assumes that there is 
media.  In fact, as long as the tray is actually closed, it assumes 
there is media.  My version at least works some of the time, and it 
has the pleasant side effect of reducing the number of wakeups.

The way I see it, there are only two other solutions: implement the 
MMC-2 API, as the comment in the source code (which may or may not solve 
the bug), or use the patch and make the kernel report 
CDROM_MEDIA_CHANGED per-process.  I think simply using the patch is an 
improvement.

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