Halsectomy

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Summary

Hal is in the process of being deprecated, since it has become a large monolithic unmaintainable mess, and also duplicates a lot of functionality which are nowadays provided by udev and the kernel itself. Please see David Zeuthen's and Kay Siever's summaries of plans.

Migration in Karmic

Functionality

Comment

Status

Who

Device ACLs

moved to udev-extras

DONE

Kay Sievers

Fn/Multimedia key handling

moved to udev-extras

DONE

Martin Pitt

GNOME power management

g-p-m uses DeviceKit-power now

DONE

Richard Hughes

Pulseaudio

migrated to libudev in git head (not released yet); karmic: backported patches in David's branch

90%

Lennart Poettering

libgphoto2 camera handling

needs tagging as libgphoto device (patch sent and committed); (discussion); udev-extras auto-acl management fixed as well;  libgphoto2_port/disk/disk.c still relies on hal

50%

Martin Pitt

GNOME storage handling

gvfs uses DeviceKit-disks now, but still builds hal volume monitor; some gvfs backends such as gphoto need porting to libudev

50%

David Zeuthen

NM modem handling

NM uses udev modem-prober now, but still refers to hal-info

80%

Dan Williams

connman/other daemons modem handling

TBD

TODO

Martin Pitt will ask Alexander Sack

pm-utils suspend quirks

TODO

music players

TBD

TODO

X.org input device detection

needs migration to libudev

TODO

Peter Hutterer

hal-cups-utils printer detection

needs migration to libudev (discussion started

TODO

TBD

Halsectomy (last edited 2013-05-10 17:41:38 by rrcs-67-78-168-186)