On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:04:25 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 1. The piece of hardware should be marked unavailable > 2. The sysadmin preferences should be stored > 3. on new plug-in old preferences should be restored. And... does hal do this any better at the moment.. without "manual" reconfiguration of hal policy? And can't you "manually" reconfigure the saved-state that kudzu uses? I very much hope that someone will develop tools to help creating local hal/kudzu policy for devices to ease local system admin burden when reconfiguring devices when the defaults do not work. You are speaking to a more general problem than the original poster was describing. -jef"as soon as you get emotional publicly, the chance that this public discussion will be constructive decreases a great deal...and i'm more than willing to push your buttons and watch your head explode...but i'd prefer to do it in another forum where the entertainment value of bloodsports is widely appreciated"spaleta
