hal-storage-addon is now a separate package

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 06:08:57AM -0400, Jon Masters wrote:

> Thanks! I reported elsewhere to some virt. folks that it is also a CPU
> hog (in terms of waking up guests every two seconds to poll a virtual CD
> device that may almost never have "media"). They are going to look at
> fixing the qemu emulation so that virtualized drives can report media
> status without being polled. But this now yields two interim solutions,
> including either explicitly telling hal not to poll (I typically do this
> on all new installs under virt) or removing this package in the future.

You'll still have issues with udisks polling if the session requests it, 
so the qemu fix is still a good one. As long as they indicate that they 
support async notification, everything should just work.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org