hal-storage-addon is now a separate package

[Jon Masters]

On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 14:08 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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.

Right, indeed and indeed. So it's on their radar.

Jon.