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|| GNOME storage handling || gvfs uses Device``Kit-disks now, but still builds hal volume monitor; gvfs backends were ported to libudev ([[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=586409|cdda]], [[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=586410|gphoto]], [[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=586411|obexftp]]); applied in 1.3.4 ||<#CCFFCC> DONE || Martin Pitt ||<#CCFFCC> DONE ||
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|| GNOME storage handling || gvfs uses Device``Kit-disks now, but still builds hal volume monitor; gvfs backends were ported to libudev ([[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=586409|cdda]], [[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=586410|gphoto]], [[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=586411|obexftp]]); need to be checked/applied upstream ||<#FFFFCC> 90% || Martin Pitt ||<#CCFFCC> DONE ||

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

Upstream Status

Who

Karmic Status

Device ACLs

moved to udev-extras

DONE

Kay Sievers

DONE

Fn/Multimedia key handling

moved to udev-extras

DONE

Martin Pitt

DONE

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 falls back to /etc/mtab reading without hal, which is functionally equivalent

DONE

Martin Pitt

DONE

hal-cups-utils printer detection

needs migration to libudev (discussion started); WIP in git tree; Code base is there, successfully tested that it works with HPLIP, scales with high numbers of USB printers (plugged 10 at the same time), ...; Packaged for Ubuntu with the source package system-config-printer, as binary package system-config-printer-udev; Closed/Moved all hal-cups-admin bug reports

DONE

Tim Waugh, Till Kamppeter

DONE

NM device detection

NM uses gudev now; needs upstream release/packaging

DONE

Dan Williams

DONE

Pulseaudio

migrated to libudev in 0.9.16test1

DONE

Lennart Poettering

DONE

GNOME storage handling

gvfs uses DeviceKit-disks now, but still builds hal volume monitor; gvfs backends were ported to libudev (cdda, gphoto, obexftp); applied in 1.3.4

DONE

Martin Pitt

DONE

GNOME power management

g-p-m uses DeviceKit-power now, but backlight handling and build system still require hal

80%

Richard Hughes

80%

identify media players and capabilities

discussion; script written, converted data available, call for comments; started fd.o project

90%

Martin Pitt, Christophe Fergeau

TODO

Rhythmbox music player detection

Rhythmbox uses gudev now. Karmic package needs upgrade to 0.12.4 version

DONE

TODO

Banshee music player detection

TODO

TODO

Amarok music player detection

TODO

TODO

pm-utils suspend quirks

transition hal-info rules to easy format, integrate into pm-utils itself

TODO

TODO

X.org input device detection

needs migration to libudev. Bug report

TODO

Peter Hutterer

TODO

checkbox

convert to udevadm info --export-db and grep -r  . /sys/class/dmi/id/ Bug report

N/A

Abel Deuring

TODO

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