On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Robert Noland <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 16:16 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: >> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Robert Noland <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 15:24 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Alan Coopersmith >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Colin Guthrie wrote: >> >> >> 'Twas brillig, and Kevin Stange at 12/05/09 18:23 did gyre and gimble: >> >> >>> So you're saying this HAL method is widely (or narrowly, but by the >> >> >>> right people) disliked? Using Gentoo it seems to be encouraged, and >> >> >>> I've seen indications other distros (like Ubuntu) have picked up the >> >> >>> technique as well. >> >> >> >> >> >> HAL will eventually be phased out in favour of getting more direct >> >> >> information from udev. I'm not sure how that will impact the Xorg side >> >> >> of things but i'd imagine the end solution will be in some way related >> >> >> to udev. (this is just a guess tho) >> >> > >> >> > And for non-Linux systems? HAL is OS-agnostic, udev seems very Linux >> >> > specific. >> >> >> >> Well, there's DeviceKit, but I don't think anyone has any plans for >> >> DeviceKit-input or DeviceKit-graphics. I'd personally like to see an >> >> abstraction layer rather than putting one into Xorg. >> > >> > You don't consider HAL an reasonable abstraction layer? >> >> Not when its creators are trying to get rid of it. > > Well, I think that our gnome folks are planning to support DeviceKit as > it's replacement. > > If we are going to support dynamic device detection, then I think the > most reasonable approach is to support an OS independent or at least > cross platform API.
Right. The issue is that DeviceKit is not a catch all for any piece of hardware that could show up like HAL is. There are smaller niche DKs like DeviceKit-disks and DeviceKit-power right now. Like I said, I don't think anyone is planning DeviceKit-input to abstract input devices. -- Dan _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
