Patch to add more GEOM support to hal

[Michael Johnson]

On 10/24/06, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org> wrote:
> If you currently use a lot of different GEOM classes, and have noticed
> some strange hal-related behavior in GNOME when it comes to mounting
> disks, or seeing icons for RAID members on the desktop, try the
> following patch for sysutils/hal:
>
> http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/patch-geom
>

Works great, I changed all my hal config stuff back to the default
settings and none of the GEOM RAID members show up in
nautilus or anywhere else. Thanks!

> This patch removes libdisk usage from hal, and replaces it with pure
> GEOM configuration parsing.  I'm interested in getting all feedback.
> The idea is to fix any GEOM-related volume problems without introducing
> anything new.  So if something feels worse after this patch, definitely
> let me know.
>
> Joe
>
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