xorg server should wait HAL if it's not avail during init

Yan Li elliot.li.tech at gmail.com
Wed Jan 21 02:01:52 PST 2009


On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:14:42AM +0100, Rémi Cardona wrote:
> Tino Keitel a écrit :
> > If I got this right, this implies that HAL still detaches from the
> > terminal after startup
> 
> I'm just pointing out that HAL has all the necessary mechanisms for 
> Doing It Right (tm). I don't know when the deamon process detaches from 
> the console. This is left as an exercise for the OP.
> 
> The original poster might want to look at the HAL code to make sure that 
> it is indeed doing the right thing or not. With all the bits already in 
> place, it shouldn't be hard to "fix" HAL, if it indeed needs fixing.

Actually we take advantage of HAL's `flaw', to let it do its init in
the background to save the boot time.

-- 
Li, Yan



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