#6584 HIGH Never A: improved scanning of removable devices

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#6584: improved scanning of removable devices
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  Reporter:  mikus             |       Owner:  tomeu         
      Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new           
  Priority:  high              |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
 Component:  journal-activity  |     Version:                
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:                
  Verified:  0                 |    Blocking:                
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Changes (by mikus):

  * priority:  low => high


Comment:

 At home I use my XO with AC plugged in (and run with idle-suspend
 inhibited).  But there will be times when I want to use my XO elsewhere,
 and save battery life by using suspend.  Recently tried out suspending,
 and had the devil of a time getting my XO to "come back" to normal
 operation.  Had to press the 'power' button many many times before it
 "took".

 A discussion on the devel list suggested a correlation between difficulty
 "unsuspending" and the presence of an SD card.  [For me, a permanent SD
 card is an _absolute_ must.]  If it turns out that having to perform a
 (lengthy?) "scan" of the SD card is interfering with the completion of
 "unsuspend", that's not suitable for me.  [Especially when I did not want
 the XO to "scan" my SD in the first place!]  I'm going to change the
 priority to high.

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 p.s.  I was able to "patch" volumesmanager.py as suggested in
 http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-February/010870.html, but
 that patch appeared to stop working for me with newer builds.  I don't
 know how come.

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