[SOLVED] Completely disabling hald-addon-storage (not just stop polling) ...

[nyceyes]

Friends:

I haven't found an answer to this specific, yet simple, question...

I'd like to completely disable "hald-addon-storage" functionality (just the
storage polling piece completely). I have no use for it. And I don't want to
simply run "hal-disable-polling" against every removable drive on my
system, then still see silly output like this:

"hald-addon-storage: no polling on /dev/sXX because it is explicitly disabled".
"hald-addon-storage: no polling on /dev/sYY because it is explicitly disabled".
"hald-addon-storage: no polling on /dev/sZZ because it is explicitly disabled".

When I do a "ps -ef", I don't want to see any references to "hald-addon-storage";
in fact I want to stop hald from even thinking about managing removable storage.

Without disabling hald itself, how is this accomplished?

NOTE: I've seen posts referring to a config file "20-storage-methods.fdi" in
"/etc/hal/fdi/policy" and/or in "/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/...", but no clear
instruction on how to edit it; or even if this does what I need above.
I'm just pointing it out here for completeness.

Clear precise instructions very much appreciated (btw... running FC12).

!!Thank You!! in advance,
Noel

[cn77]

Create a custom rules file in /etc/hal/fdi/policy, for example `/etc/hal/fdi/policy/99-custom-rules.fdi', with the following contents:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<deviceinfo version="0.2">
	<device>
		<match key="storage.removable" bool="true">
			<remove key="info.addons" type="strlist">hald-addon-storage</remove>
		</match>
	</device>
</deviceinfo>

[nyceyes]

Hi cn77...

Your reply was precise (as I requested one to be), comprehensive (cut-and-paste),
and it worked. I appreciate it.

Thank you.