prepare HAL for upcoming udev changes

[David Zeuthen]

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 19:47 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> The next udev version will not store anything in its database if not
> neccessary. So udev does not need to write 600 pretty useless database
> files and HAL does not need to process the information that is already
> contained in the sysfs-path.
> 
> The udevinfo-dump of the next udev version will only print devices which
> have a custom configuration. This changes HAL to look for the default
> device-node derived from the kernels devpath if udev has not specified
> anything else.

Sounds like a sensible thing for udev to do. And it looks to me that
we'll retain backwards compat with older udev versions too. So please go
ahead and commit this.

Thanks,
David


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