On Friday 09 September 2011 20:38:35 Timothy Pearson wrote:

> 
> In light of this, I would consider this patch a temporary workaround to a
> far more serious problem, 

Currently there are two mediamanager backends: the hal backend and the fstab/mtab backend.
The patch only repairs and reenables the previously disabled parts of the fstab/mtab backend?
and makes it compatible with modern environments.

A proper solution maybe would require writing a third backend for dealing with udisks.
I hope you'll share the third backend to mediamanager once you write it.

> and would reject the patch for inclusion in the 
> upstream TDE sources.
 
> In fact, as a matter of policy I am going to reject all piecemeal HAL
> workarounds unless they implement portions of the libraries (TUComputer,
> TUPower) that I have mentioned earlier.

The patch only solves the problem of mediamanager's detection of new disk
devices. It does not deal with other hal functionality.

> This decision is an effort to 
> keep Trinity maintainable and stable, and continue with the philosophy of
> having dedicated system access libraries that then distribute information
> and control of system functions to higher level TDE applications.