Re: polling mechanism for media presence
Allen Curtis <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.usb.devel |
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>>> I am sorry. HAL? Where do I get this daemon? >> >> It's part of the hal package, which is included in Fedora and >> presumably >> other distributions as well. See >> >> http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/hal > > What would an embedded distro use though? HAL takes up > multi-megabytes. > A swapless system, with say 32 MB total RAM, probably won't find that > to be a usable solution ... > Gee Dave, How did you know? That is exactly what we have, an embedded system with 32MB of RAM and no swap! We created the unusual_device entry to launch a kernel thread to do this polling. This solution does not "feel" right but I do not know what else to do. - Allen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel