Re: hald spins in a poll/read loop against /dev/usb with CURRENT

From: Daniel Eischen <deischen_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:18:05 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>>
>> I've rebuilt hald (hal-0.5.11_26) after checking out 8/stable under
>> /usr/src/sys. Same problem. A spin loop of poll/read, with /dev/usb
>> responding to poll() but not to read().
>
> Insufficient.  You need to be running on a world/kernel which are in
> sync with each other.  You also need to make sure the libusb port is no
> longer installed, and that you have run "make delete-old" after the
> upgrade.  Then rebuild hal.

With regard to the libusb port problems, shouldn't the
ports prefer/configure to use libusb20 when it is present,
so that it wouldn't matter if libusb was installed or not?

-- 
DE
Received on Fri Sep 25 2009 - 20:18:07 UTC

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