What are hald-addon-storage and hald polling?

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Issue

  • What are hald-addon-storage and hald polling?

    5    68 23943     1  15   0  31888  4928 -      Ss   ?          0:01 hald
0     0 23944 23943  18   0  21696  1088 -      S    ?          0:00 hald-runner
4    68 23951 23944  25   0  12328   844 acpi_b S    ?          0:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpi kernel interface /proc/acpi/event
4    68 23958 23944  24   0  12328   848 evdev_ S    ?          0:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event2
4    68 23961 23944  24   0  12328   848 evdev_ S    ?          0:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event1
4    68 23965 23944  24   0  12328   844 evdev_ S    ?          0:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event0
0     0 23973 23944  18   0  10232   688 -      S    ?          0:01 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/scd0
0     0 23975 23944  18   0  10232   688 -      S    ?          0:02 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/hda
0     0 23977 23944  18   0  10232   688 -      S    ?          0:01 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sdy

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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