Re: USB autosuspend and turning of usb pendrive leds

[Hans de Goede]

Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Freitag 21 September 2007 schrieb Jiri Kosina:
> > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >
> > > Thats not what I had in mind, autosuspend doesn't work (presumably 
> > > because hal keeps polling for media change) maybe I should fix hal to 
> > > not keep polling for devices which don't have removable media?
> > Hi Hans,
> >
> > I think the correct solution is that HAL stops polling the device as soon 
> > as it sees that it got autosuspended.
>
> And how would we notice a medium change then? If there's an alternative
> way to notice it or we know it cannot happen there's no reason to poll at all.

It looks like hal is currently polling device of which it knows the medium is 
not removable, like USB-pens.

Regards,

Hans

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