[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#476086: hal: input addon uses as much cpu time as possible after rfkill removal

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 10:19:56PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> After removing a module that had an rfkill input device, for
> example b43 (where b43 is compiled with rfkill support), the
> input addon hangs in a poll loop that includes an invalid file
> descriptor pointing to the event device that has been removed.
> This causes it to use as much cpu time as possible forcing one
> to restart hald or kill the input addon.

Sorry for the late reply. I just tested this on my powerbook with hal 0.5.11-1
and the latest sid kernel 2.6.25-2-powerpc, and i can't reproduce this.

Could you check if it still happens on your system?

  Sjoerd
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