Comment 27 for bug 27323

Martin,
Yes, of course hal-disable-polling exists. I guess it wasn't explicitly stated in this bug, but what we need is a generic configuration mechanism to prevent HAL from polling a particular device in the first place. We can't expect all laptop users to figure out how to create a startup script to run hal-disable-polling on their own. Does this exist? If not, then I don't believe this bug is truly "fixed" because it needs to be easy for the average user to change IF they want to sacrifice functionality for the extra battery life.