HAL parallel startup patch for 1.6?

[Peter Hutterer]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:50:27PM -0600, Robert C. Noland III wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 10:42 -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
> > Peter asked on IRC whether I wanted the "HAL startup patch" in 1.6. If
> > it's this one:
> > 
> >    config: if we can't connect to HAL, listen for a startup notification.
> >     
> >     If HAL isn't available when we try to connect, the registered NameOwnerChanged
> >     signal handler waits until HAL is available. Once we connected to HAL, we
> >     unregister the signal handler again.
> >     This allows HAL to be started in parallel or after the server has started.
> >     
> >     Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
> > 
> > then I think the answer is yes. Can I get someone to take a look at this
> > and see whether there are any concerns about this patch?
> 
> I've already applied this to FreeBSD' 1.5.3 release with no negative
> impacts, only goodness.  It is running in the wild already, so I would
> like to see it in 1.6 so I can drop the patch.

we have it in Fedora Rawhide, no negative (or positive) feedback yet, so
presumably it at least doesn't wreck ppl's machines.

Cheers,
  Peter