I was disappointed to see that "dynamic drive configuration" (http://www.winehq.org/?issue=313#Dynamic%20Drive%20Configuration) amounts to a few HAL functions in wine's explorer.
Windows has been using device notifications for at least 11 years now (since Windows 95), and neither wine nor ReactOS have even begun this feature.
I would be interested in implementing it by using dbus/HAL in wineserver, and translating HAL device notifications into equivalent WM_DEVICECHANGE messages which then get broadcast to all windows.
Is any work being done in this area? If not, would this work? Are long-running functions requiring I/O (hal_device_get_property_...()) allowed in wineserver (which seems to be event-driven)? Any other comments?
Thank you Damjan
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