28 Aug
2012
28 Aug
'12
7:04 p.m.
It looks like the apparent lack of functionality is
caused
by two main things:
1.) The TDEHW backend does not yet have per-device mount
configuration support written for it. Now that I am aware of the
missing functionality I will see what I can do to add it in.
I ask that first we add Serghei's udisks2 code. Even if incomplete most/all systems
today no longer supporting HAL have udisks/udisks2 installed. TDEHW might be the best
long-term option, but having udisks support seems sensible. Perhaps in the short term we
focus on udisks support and focus on TDEHW for the long-term.
2.) Some of the other problems, such as unmounting
not
always working, may be bugs in udev and/or the kernel, as I remember fighting
with similar bugs when I was developing the TDEHW library. What
kernel and udev versions are you running?
Slackware 14 RC3:
kernel 3.2.28
udev 182
udisks 1.0.4
udisks2 1.98.0
upower 0.9.17
I have not tested removable devices with other desktop environments to determine whether
the problem is solely TDE. I suspect probably so because there are many people testing
Slackware 14 and no such reports have surfaced.
I successfully patched HAL, rebuilt tdebase, and retested on Slackware 14 RC3. The TDE
results remained intermittent. I suspect there is a conflict between HAL and udisks. I did
not try removing udisks and I won't pursue that. Tampering that deep with the upstream
packages ends hope of support and ends hope of user motivation to use TDE.
My 2 cents: I expect no more than one more release candidate before Slackware 14 goes
live. Slackware is not the first distro to offer a HAL-less system. Actually, the opposite
generally is true. That is, Slackware usually is one of the last to adopt major changes
like that. Thus, if Slackware no longer supports HAL and is supporting udisks, then the
transition is pretty much complete in the Linux based world. In other words, TDE needs to
support HAL-less systems. Users are not going to wait or care. :-)
Darrell