HAL, FC3, and a vanilla kernel. (desperate)

[Emily Brantley]

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 12:22 -0500, Emily Brantley wrote:
> i started using a kernel from kernel.org because i hoped it would help
> me get rid of some problems i was having with the kernel (which, since
> then, i realize are in those kernels too) but since i have that kernel
> so well configured for my system, i wish i could keep using it.
> 
> it works great.  all my devices are in perfect working order, every
> module is being loaded, it's perfect.  the problem isn't with the
> kernel.
> 
> when i use this kernel (and it doesn't seem to matter if it's one of
> linus' or morton's (i haven't tried any others, it's too inconvenient on
> dial up)), haldaemon doesn't seem to want to work correctly.  it doesn't
> seem to be haldaemon's fault.  it's just that the kernel does sysfs a
> little differently...
> 
> sorry, this is getting hard to explain.  let me be a little more
> specific.  i have a couple of USB mass storage devices.  they work in
> both kernels perfectly.  the devices are created (even following my
> custom udev rules so the naming and symlinking is persistent).  i can
> mount them myself.  but automatic mount points aren't being created like
> they should !
> 
> i spent a really long time trying to figure out the problem, and i think
> it's with sysfs.  with a _Fedora_ kernel, HAL finds info about each
> storage volume under a path like this (this would be for my USB CD-RW):
> 
> linux.sysfs_path_device =
> '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/2-1/2-1.2/2-1.2:2.0/host0/0:0:0:0'
> 
> and the same USB CD-RW's info in a vanilla kernel seems to be in THIS
> path:
> 
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/2-1/2-1.2/2-1.2:2.0/host1/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0
> 
> and HAL doesn't seem to be able to figure that out.  is that indeed what
> the problem is ?  is HAL not looking in the right place ?  it's unaware
> of the existence of these storage volumes even though they exist.  i
> don't know how to make HAL look in the right place or if i need and
> updated version or if i'm going in a totally wrong direction.  is
> anybody else using a vanilla kernel with USB storage and not getting
> automatic mountpoints ?
> 
> udev figures this out (which i can see from "udevinfo -a -p `udevinfo -q
> path -n /dev/sr0`") !!  why not HAL ?
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and oops.  didn't mean to reply to that guy's email.  should i repost or
leave it alone ?
-- 
Emily Brantley <located at bellsouth.net>
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