Description of problem: powertop suggests to call hal-disable-polling even though polling is already disabled for all drives Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): powertop-1.9-3.fc9.x86_64 hal-0.5.11-0.6.rc2.fc9.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. disable polling for all drives 2. run powertop Actual results: powertop suggests to call hal-disable-polling Expected results: powertop should detect that polling is already disabled Additional info: powertop suggests to disable polling on device /dev/scd0. However, scd0 is just a symlink to sr0 and polling on sr0 is disabled. $ ps -ef --forest | grep hal 68 1995 1 0 09:22 ? 00:00:00 hald root 1999 1995 0 09:22 ? 00:00:00 \_ hald-runner root 2079 1999 0 09:22 ? 00:00:00 \_ hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event2 /dev/input/event1 /dev/input/event4 /dev/input/event3 root 2092 1999 0 09:22 ? 00:00:00 \_ hald-addon-storage: no polling on /dev/sdc because it is explicitly disabled root 2094 1999 0 09:22 ? 00:00:00 \_ /usr/libexec/hald-addon-cpufreq 68 2095 1999 0 09:22 ? 00:00:00 \_ hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket root 2096 1999 0 09:22 ? 00:00:00 \_ hald-addon-storage: no polling on /dev/sdd because it is explicitly disabled root 2098 1999 0 09:22 ? 00:00:00 \_ hald-addon-storage: no polling on /dev/sde because it is explicitly disabled root 2100 1999 0 09:22 ? 00:00:00 \_ hald-addon-storage: no polling on /dev/sdf because it is explicitly disabled root 2126 1999 0 09:22 ? 00:00:00 \_ hald-addon-storage: no polling on /dev/sr0 because it is explicitly disabled
As additional information: I just pulled the upstream svn repository and it also (wrongly) suggests to call hal-disable-polling.
Hmm... I guess it's because of hal's new behavior. Older versions of hal killed the hald-addon-storage process when polling was disabled. Now there is a hald-addon-storage process running for every relevant device, even if polling is disabled on all of them. powertop then detects these processes and suggests to disable polling.
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