[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#559562: devicekit-disks: provide a way to disable polling

[Darren Salt]

I've just been bitten by this one.

I have a stuck devkit-disks-daemon and a stuck instance of gxine (both in
state D), and a backtrace showing up in the kernel log. Looks like That
Kernel/Drive Locking Bug has been triggered again; this is why I'd disabled
optical drive polling when using HAL.

(HW in question is an IDE drive attached to an nForce4 controller. I've not
switched to libata for IDE devices.)

Temporary workarounds using "devkit-disks --inhibit-all-polling" or similar
aren't really very useful...

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