[Kde-hardware-devel] Re: Help needed: Make libsolid 4.6 running without HAL

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Tuesday, November 09, 2010 12:30:52 Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 09, 2010 01:44:57 am Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> > Tomorrow I am going to spend (for the first time on the UDev backend)
> > some hours on it (> 5), so I really expect to have something more than
> > what we have right now.
> 
> Guys, great work in embracing new and improved technology. I'm a bit of a 
> stick-in-the-mud though, so might I suggest changing the thread title to
> 
>         Make libsolid 4.6 run with udev when available, falling back to HAL
> 
> There's plenty of places where udev just isn't an option but HAL is well-
> entrenched (e.g. BSD, Solaris, probably MacOSX) and I'm afraid (er ..
> vaguely  worried) that you're going to end up with leaving them broken
> down and abandoned.

Yeah, it's really about "making it *possible* to use libsolid without HAL*. 
The HAL backend is being kept in place, but as most Linux systems are not 
providing HAL anymore, we need an alternative backend mechanism for Solid, and 
that's in part UDev. :)
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sebas

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