Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:19:21 -0400 From: "J.R. Oldroyd" <fbsd@opal.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hal truncating block.device on freebsd-8.0rc1 Message-ID: <20091023141921.7aaecf23@shibato.opal.com> In-Reply-To: <1256276672.54447.130.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20091022212532.23a0b972@shibato.opal.com> <1256270523.54447.113.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20091023013730.6300fd64@shibato.opal.com> <1256276672.54447.130.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:44:32 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 01:37 -0400, J.R. Oldroyd wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:02:03 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hal doesn't support volumes with spaces in their names. This is > > > documented in the FreeBSD HAL FAQ at > > > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html . Patches to add support > > > for this are very welcome. > > > > > > Joe > > > > > > > That doc, and some googling which found two year old email from you, > > show that this is apparently a long-standing problem with geom/glabel. > > > > Any pointers on where the defective code might lie? > > hald/freebsd/hf-storage.c. The fix would be to process > kern.geom.confxml instead of kern.geom.conftxt. > > Joe > I have a simple patch to the conftxt parser that looks for LABEL lines and appends fields until the "i" field is in the right place. This fixes things for this camera. I have no other devices at hand to test to see if anything broke, however. The replacement files/patch-hald_hf-storage.c with the additional patch is here: http://opal.com/jr/hal/patch-hald_hf-storage.c By the way, the patch file should probably be renamed to files/patch-hald_freebsd_hf-storage.c for consistency with the other patch files there. -jr
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