[email protected] wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Darren J Moffat wrote:
>>> So what work needs to be funded in the desktop consolidation and other
>>> consolidations to allow the move away from HAL to upower/udisks ?
>> The X consolidation is already planning the Xorg updates needed to move
>> input device handling from HAL to direct calls to the same system libraries
>> that HAL previously called - the upstream X.Org community already did the
>> Linux implementation of this for the just released Xorg 1.8, which now
>> calls Linux's libudev directly on Linux platforms, and is waiting for the
>> maintainers of the other platform ports to do the same before removing the
>> HAL support completely:
>> http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgHAL
>
> Thanks for this information. Is this only related to input devices?
>
> I am still interested in creating a framework that allows to correctly deal
> with all possible constraints with CD/DVD/BD writing (even appending to a
> multi
> session media that requires to be able to do a forced unmount of the medium
> that
> is going to be appended.
>
> Do you have any idea where the right channel for discussions regarding this
> topic may be?
The information I provided was only about the X code, which only uses HAL for
input devices, as HAL never provided any useful functionality for video display
devices, and X doesn't access other devices directly.
Access to removable storage media would seem to fall under the udisks projects
previously mentioned, for which the upstream community can be found on the
DeviceKit mailing list (the interim project between HAL and udisks/upower,
which was deprecated before we even had a chance to adopt it):
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/devkit-devel/
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-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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