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# hald polling

- Checks a few times/second
- ... per device
- ps uax: hald-addon-storage × 5

"Dave, I can't stop checking your CD."

"Dave, I can't stop checking your CD."

But the funny thing is, when I made that powertop run I just showed you, I didn't have a physical CD drive plugged in to my machine.

And hal was STILL polling!

Hal is actually being removed and replaced with something called DeviceKit, because the author of hal admits that it's a big mess that's too hard to fix.