> Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@...> writes:
>
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I recently pushed a new (alpha quality) backend for the media:/ kioslave
>> which uses udev/pmount and therefore does not rely on HAL.  I encourage
>> developers here to try it out!
>>
>> Please report failures to this list, not to the bugtracker, as it has
>> not
>> been tested much beyond mounting simple flash drives.  Encryption
>> support
>> is buggy, but repairing it is my next task.
>>
>> Rhis will NOT be made default for R14.0 due to the vast array of
>> hardware
>> that it still needs to be tested on, but if your distribution no longer
>> works with HAL it may be better than nothing even in this alpha form.
>>
>> To enable it, pass the -DWITH_TDEHWLIB="on" option to tdebase CMake.
>>
>> Enjoy!
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>
> I built Trinity without HAL and udev (165) seems to be working. tdebase
> would
> not build with udev-181. One bug is that all loop devices are showing up
> under
> kioslave media:/ which is bad for me since our distro is based on modules
> mounted on loopback. I have a rules file in:
> /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules
> containing:
> KERNEL=="loop*", ENV{UDISKS_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"
>
> but this makes no difference.
>
> Jay

TDE does not parse udisks/udev configuration files, but you can override
its device classifier through a currently undocumented mechanism which
involves adding a distro-specific .hwclass file to
${DATA_INSTALL_DIR}/tdehwlib/deviceclasses.

The .hwclass files operate by matching all conditions in the [Conditions]
section; if a match is found the device is classified according to the
rules in the [DeviceType] section.  Look at
http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/tdelibs/tree/tdecore/hwlibdata/classrules/floppydisk-platform.hwclass
for an example file which is used to classify floppy drives.

I have not tested this, but it should get you started:

hide-loop-devices.hwclass

[Conditions]
SUBSYSTEM=block
DRIVER=loop

[DeviceType]
GENTYPE=System

Tim