[ANNOUNCEMENT] hal-0.5.12rc1 and hal-info-20081127 available for testing

Danny Kukawka danny.kukawka at web.de
Thu Nov 27 07:13:43 PST 2008


Hi,

I've uploaded the first release candidate of hal v0.5.12 along with a hal-info 
snapshot to:

    http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/hal-0.5.12rc1.tar.bz2 [and *.gz]
    http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/hal-info-20081127.tar.bz2 [and *.gz]

Please note: they are only snapshots and not tagged in the git repos atm. 
Please test the packages heavily and carefully. Please report bugs (no 
features get included until the final version). Thanks in advance for your 
work.

    Danny

-------------------------------------------------
Contributors to HAL 0.5.12 "RC1" (since v0.5.11):
-------------------------------------------------

Alex Kanavin (1):
      add ACL rule an policy for obex devices

Andreas Schwab (1):
      fixed broken alignment

Arjan van de Ven (1):
      make hal start a lot faster

Daniel Drake (1):
      disable polling on batteries if battery.quirk.do_not_poll is set

Daniel Walsh (1):
      don't leak file descriptor on umount

Danny Kukawka (117):
      update TODO (version updates)
      clean up Apple releted fdi-files
      added --use-syslog option to man page
      fixed usage of realpath()
      fixed SPEC: s/alsa.device_pcm_class/alsa.pcm_class/
      fixed check for return value of uname()
      fixed quoting for DELL_WCTL
      add support for VMBus
      updated SPEC for VMBus
      removed deprecated keys usb_device.*_bcd
      fixed UDI generation for VMBus devices
      added new properties to vmbus and updated spec
      fixed a bunch of compiler warnings from the Intel compiler
      fixed error handling in linux scripts
      cleaned up hal-ipw-killswitch-linux
      fixed KillSwitch linux scripts for Dell to return better errormsg
      fix macbook-backlight for ix86
      fixed make distcheck for validating polkit policy files
      add documentation for the linux namespace to the spec
      fixed usage of info.subsystem and linux.subsystem
      post-release version bump to version 0.5.12
      updated NEWS file with info from 0.5.11
      fixed examples for info.subsystem in spec
      added system.board.* for base-/mainboard information
      removed info about hal-device-manager from spec
      fixed memory leaks related to usage of g_strsplit
      fixed fdi.dtd for the remove rule
      updated SPEC for power_management.quirk.pci_save
      fix PMU battery and AC handling with power_supply
      fixed PropertyModified signal in SPEC and code
      fixed possible memory leak
      remove storage.model property from volumes
      reuse code in addons to check privileges
      updated .gitignore
      fixed merge for uint64
      added new addon for the generic sysfs backlight interface
      fix detection of TabletPCs
      fixed device removage
      fixed 10-tabletPCs.fdi
      added hald-addon-generic-backlight to .gitignore
      added new addon for the ipw killswitch interface
      add hald-addon-ipw-killswitch to .gitignore
      fixed Lock() handling
      unify directory usage under /var/run
      added check for ConsoleKit >= v0.3.1 to configure
      allow acl and user_xattr as mount options for reiserfs
      removed needless whitespaces at the end of lines
      fix DBus introspection for org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager
      ported addon-macbook-backlight to use HAL logging code
      fixed cpufreq addon to call setup_logger()
      added configure check for libsmbios >= 2.0.3
      use smi::getPasswordStatus() only if available
      use udevadm instead of (deprecated) udevinfo
      add requirements for next release (0.5.12)
      fixed wrong condition in libsmbios checks
      don't use hal_util_compute_udi directly inside of hald
      added linux rfkill subsystem to HAL
      add *.tar.bz2 to .gitignore
      get storage.model for SCSI via HDIO_GET_IDENTITY instead of sysfs
      remove unneeded variable from commit 702351eaea4
      add battery.quirk.do_not_poll to spec
      removed deprecated properties from spec
      removed outdated deprecated keys finally from spec
      Revert "allow 'locale=' NTFS mount option for Linux"
      unify set volume.ignore for recovery partitions
      Revert "adapt HAL to changes in the kernel regarding to docking 
       stations"
      fix udi: replace '/' in the last part of the udi
      prefer sans-serif instead of luxi sans in css file
      fixed formatting of org.freedesktop.Hal.SingletonAddon in spec
      keep subsystem/devhandler in alphabetical order
      add ppdev subsystem
      add support for virtual network devices
      added obex namespace to spec
      sort device access policies/actions alphabetical
      add ACL rule and policy for ppdev
      fixed ACL rules for PDAs
      add support for detect DVD-R DL for storage.cdrom.dvdrdl
      fixed spec for vio bus
      allow also PCI as possible storage.bus
      add support for the BDI subsystem
      add bdi namespace to spec
      add support for bdi bases block devices
      add bdi to storage.bus spec
      fixed storage.bus spec to sort values in alphabetical order
      reorganise spec: sort 'Subsystem-Specific Properties' alphabetical
      reorganise spec: sort 'Functional Properties' alphabetical
      reorganise spec: sort 'D-Bus interfaces' alphabetical
      add biometric and biometric.fingerprint_reader namespace
      added ACL/device access rules for fingerprint reader
      small cleanup for configure.in
      added volume.(un)mount.valid_options to spec
      added new properties to mount alternative fstypes as e.g. ntfs-3g
      added support for alternative fstype to Mount()
      added comment to not change order of usb and usbclass handler
      Revert "add support for the BDI subsystem"
      revert BDI changes from SPEC
      Revert "add support for bdi bases block devices"
      remove generic sysfs backlight from scripts
      add volume.fstype.alternative.prefered to spec
      add support for HP Smart Array CCISS block devices
      add cciss as possible storage.bus to spec
      fixed md related code in hotplug_event_begin_add_blockdev()
      check module parameter of acpi video to set brightness_in_hardware
      fixed typo, adjust description of volume.fstype.alternative.preferred
      fix handling of Device Mapper devices for LUKS
      fix commit 151957477daaf985acdb2d7bda5b4a418c612cf3
      cleanup handling volume filesystem information
      fix commit d29ea6b31b67bf540b23dfedfa1b7add4c22bce2
      another fix for commit d29ea6b31b67bf540b23dfedfa1b7add4c22bce2
      add memstick and memstick_host namespace to spec
      add memstick to storage.bus in spec
      fixed call of hotplug_queue_now_empty() under linux
      Revert "cleanup handling volume filesystem information"
      improve HAL performance for filesystem detection
      add a new singleton addon for the rfkill subsystem
      add new killswitch.state property
      fixed ipw addon

David Woodhouse (1):
      add support for of_platform subsystem

David Zeuthen (2):
      remove use of at_console in the D-Bus configuration file
      default to use CK and PK by default and print warning if PK is not found

Frederic Crozat (1):
      adapt new CK library version (>= v0.3.1) to HAL

Gabriel Burt (1):
      export seconds_to_sleep to pm-utils

Guillem Jover (1):
      add mmc_host slot_name support

Holger Freyther (1):
      allow to cross compile hal with host and target having different input.h

Holger Macht (2):
      output errors to stderr and provide a description
      adapt HAL to changes in the kernel regarding to docking stations

Joe Marcus Clarke (3):
      call libhal_device_addon_is_ready()
      make sure the block device is added before probing it
      add support for the CheckForMedia message

Johannes Berg (2):
      use 'phy80211' instead of 'wiphy' symlink to detect wireless
      use wext ioctl instead of sysfs to detect wireless

Jon Oberheide (1):
      fix input addon to handle G_IO_NVAL situations

Jürg Billeter (1):
      inserts the sysfs path at the right position for call udevadm

Kouhei Sutou (1):
      add support for detecting DVD-R DL media

Lucas Rocha (1):
      probe for v4l only if probe for v4l2 failed

Ludwig Nussel (2):
      merge additional device access types from hal-resmgr
      hal-acl-tool: don't free strings that are not supposed to be freed

Makoto Dei (1):
      include config.h before any other headers

Mario Limonciello (2):
      check if BIOS password is present prior to use libsmbios commands
      fix Dell bluetooth killswitch

Markus Rothe (1):
      fix issue on 64bit big endian architectures.

Martin Pitt (3):
      volume.num_blocks can become larger than 2G
      increase hal helper timeout to fix slow CD-ROMs
      add ACL support to removable block devices

Matthew Garrett (2):
      Add newer Macbook Pros, and remove the backlight addon for Nvidia-based 
       Pros
      add memstick/memstick_host support

Michael Biebl (1):
      allow uid/gid mount option for ntfs

Pacho Ramos (1):
      prevent hal from automounting Dell recovery partition

Patrick Campbell (1):
      set Xen storage drive type

Paul Bolle (1):
      add zoom and ThinkPad events to acpi addon for IBM/Lenovo

Philipp Ittershagen (1):
      add save-pci support to hal-system-power-suspend-linux

Rafał Mużyło (1):
      fix some configure issues

Richard Hughes (4):
      fix a crash when the rfkill device does not have a type
      revert a tiny bit of the device ording change as it breaks printer 
       detection
      remove the forced removal of the trailing newline to fix OLPC probing
      prefer openfirmware interface for DMI even when dmidecode is found in 
       the path

Rémi Cardona (1):
      add libtool-2.2 support

Sjoerd Simons (2):
      fix the processing of the hotplug queue
      make portable_audio_player.access_method.protocols mandatory and clarify
       portable_audio_player.[drivername].protocol

----------------------------------------------------
Contributors to hal-info 20081127 (since 20080508):
----------------------------------------------------

Aleksey Kliger (1):
      video quirks for Fujitsu Lifebook S2210

Alexander Sack (2):
      add Nokia 3109c as a GPRS/EDGE modem (CDC ACM)
      add UM175 EVDO USB modem

Alexei Korobkin (1):
      add Philips Sa3125 as USB music player

Baard Johansen (1):
      add another Nokia N82 modem product ID

Bastien Nocera (2):
      detect PSP 3000 as a music player
      correct PSP music player entry

Ben Caldwell (1):
      added missing keys for a HP Compaq 6730s

Bozidar Proevski (1):
      keymap for HP Compaq 6510b

Brent Holden (1):
      add UM150 EVDO card to modems

Carl Gable Watts (1):
      suspend quirks for Toshiba R200 and R205

Carlos Corbacho (1):
      Fix key mapping for Acer TravelMate 8100

Chris Mayo (1):
      added entry for SanDisk ImageMate 12 in 1 Reader

Dan Williams (7):
      Add more 3G modem IDs
      modem: add C-motech CNU-680 as a CDMA modem
      Add Sierra Wireless Compass 597
      Additional mobile broadband devices
      Fix usb interface number on Ericsson 3G card
      [modem] add another Novatel variant
      modem: add VZW UM175 (Pantech)

Daniel Drake (1):
      add fdi file with battery.quirk.do_not_poll for OLPC

Danny Kukawka (102):
      add keymap for a HP Compaq 2710p
      fixed entry for the HP HS2300 (Sierra Wireless MC8775)
      cleanup/order entries
      added Amazon Kindle as USB music player
      add suspend quirk for a HP Compaq 6715s
      added suspend quirks for a Acer Aspire 5003
      add 21-video-quirk-nvidia.fdi to Makefile.am
      add suspend quirk for FSC LifeBook S7020
      fixed keymap for the HP dv6000
      fixed misformated xml in 21-video-quirk-nvidia.fdi
      fixed fdi.dtd for the remove rule
      fixed keymapping for Dell machines
      added suspend quirk for a ASUS U6S
      add more cardreaders
      fix Samsung keymapping and add a SX20S
      fixed/improved keymapping for sony-laptop
      fixed typo from previous commit
      add another CDMA modem (CMOTECH CDMA USB modem)
      removed needless whitespaces at the end of lines
      cleanup 10-usb-card-readers.fdi
      added suspend quirk comment for Apple with s2ram entries from -r1.132
      updated Acer suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.132
      updated Asus suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.132
      updated Dell suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.132
      updated HP suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.132
      add Blackberry devices as USB music players
      add missing Latitude XT Tablet(PC) keys
      added SonyEricsson W910i as USB music player
      add keymapping for Sony VGN-S360
      fix new entry from b6d3ed743f58eff42c0dbdcbf8e7598a589e1584
      cleanup: remove some empty entries
      small fix of 10-usb-music-players.fdi
      add another keymap for a MSI machine
      don't add input.keymap capability twice
      HP Compaq 2710p handles brightness in hardware
      HP Compaq nc2400 handles brightness in hardware
      add *.tar.bz2 to .gitignore
      updated IBM suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.132
      updated Lenovo suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.132
      updated Toshiba suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.132
      enable outcommented entries with pci_save quirk
      updated Sony suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.132
      updated Samsung suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.132
      updated FSC suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.132
      updated several suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.132
      updated HP suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.132
      fixed usage of *_outof directives
      add fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-battery.fdi to Makefile
      add iAudio U5 to USB music player
      cleaned up 10-usb-music-players.fdi
      removed deprecated keys from 10-usb-music-players.fdi
      updated Acer suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.133
      updated Asus suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.133
      fixed typo in suspend quirk
      updated Asus suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.133
      updated FSC suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.133
      fixed/activated some PCI_SAVE quirks
      updated HP suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.133
      updated IBM suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.133
      updated Lenovo suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.133
      updated Toshiba suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.133
      updated Sony suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.133
      updated misc suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.133
      added suspend quirks with pci_save from s2ram -r1.133
      fix commit b41b3826d4cc9df1787bfa96f8c44edbe938b9fd
      fix commit 8eeeaa85f6c292bf5e761b53b16878210bcf7fb0
      changed modem handling to set common keys only one time
      add suspend quirks for a HP Pavilion ZT1000-IC
      added suspend quirk for HP 530 Notebook PC
      optimised misc keymap file: set input.keymap at the end
      add keymap for a Toshiba Satellite A110
      fixed typo in keymap fdi-file
      set HP Compaq 2510p as machine which handle brightness in hardware
      updated and extended keymap for Toshiba Satellite A110
      added 10-usb-obex.fdi to identify obex devices
      updated Acer suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.134
      updated Asus suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.134
      fixed typo from commit 39c1f01f
      updated Dell suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.134
      updated FSC suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.134
      updated HP suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.134
      updated Lenovo suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.134
      updated Toshiba suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.134
      updated Sony suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.134
      updated misc suspend quirks with s2ram whitelist entries from -r1.134
      fixed usage of *_outof and ';'
      fixed acer keymapping
      fixed HP keymap to match for now only laptops
      add suspend quirk for a Lenovo X60s
      add HTC Diamond as USB music player
      set ogg support only for Android (HTC G1)
      fixed usage of prefix_ncase: s/SONY/sony/
      add Sony Ericsson K750i as GSM modem
      sorted modem entries
      cleand up modem entries, merged some entries
      removed some V.250 command set entries
      split up 10-ipw-rfkill-switch.fdi
      fix Makefile for IWL fdi-file
      fix typo in configure
      deactivated entry for a LG Fusic Phone as mp3 player
      fix commit ac72c4f2903bf27b9514ff50c3a3c5c794223688
      fixed FUJITSU related keymap entries

Dave Topan (1):
      added suspend quirks for a Dell C500

David Härdeman (1):
      keymap for a HP 8510w

Dorian Scholz (1):
      add keymap for Samsung X60p

Fredrik Roubert (1):
      add suspend quirk for Sony Vaio VGN-N320E

Hans de Goede (1):
      add suspend quirk and keymap for a HP Compaq Evo N600C

Hein-Pieter van Braam (1):
      add ZTE MF628 HSDPA USB dongle modem

Ivan N. Zlatev (1):
      add entry for two Sony Walkman Video MP3 NWZ-xxxx models

Jakub Hrozek (1):
      suspend-to-ram quirk for Lenovo R61e

Jesse Keating (1):
      add another cingular card into the database

Jim Duchek (1):
      add Samsung A707 as GSM modem

John Hull (1):
      add another ID for the Sansa Clip music player in MSC

Jorge Pastor (1):
      blacklist Intuix S300 U3 extra LUN

Kai Willadsen (1):
      fixed invalid keys of Panasonic UMP

Kenneth Mokkelbost (1):
      add Sansa Fuze music player

Kenny Wickstrom (1):
      add suspend quirk for a Sony PCG-V505ECP

Koen Sadza (1):
      add Option Globetrotter HSDPA modem

Lars Wirzenius (1):
      add Nokia E61 mobile modem

Luca Botti (1):
      fix suspend quirk entry for Dell D630

Mario Limonciello (3):
      add extra Fn keys for Dell Studio Line
      fix "Media STOP" key assignment on Dell computers
      fix wrong product ID in previous Novatel modem addition

Martin Pitt (18):
      Add Lyra TH1100A music player.
      Add suspend quirk for IBM A31 (product ID 2652).
      add Nokia 6120 Classic modem
      consolidate recent Nokia modem FDIs
      fix syntax error in 10-modem.fdi
      add Nokia N70 mobile modem
      add keymap for Samsung Q1 Ultra
      add iRiver E100 music player
      add Motorola V3xx mobile modem
      fix LG U990 modem entry
      add NEC emobile modem
      add Nokia 5310 music player
      add Nokia N82 mobile modem
      add Nokia N82 mobile music player
      fix typo in previous commit (Nokia N82 music player)
      add ONDA MF632 HSDPA USB dongle modem
      add Sierra AirCard 880 U modem
      fix Sierra Wireless MC5720 modem vendor ID

Matthew Garrett (13):
      add suspend quirks for nvidia g80 hardware
      Make the acer keymap file more generic. Should remove the need to add
      Make the Dell keymap more generic.
      Make the HP keymap more generic
      Add some default video quirks for machines that have not been explicitly 
quirked
      Make the Samsung keymaps more generic
      brightness_in_hardware should only be true on Thinkpads that use the
      Fix up some errors in the Thinkpad keymaps, and make them generic.
      Make the Sony keymap more generic
      The Dell entry is actually already made in the Dell addon code in hal
      Fix the path to the Thinkpad backlight device
      remove incorrect Macbook Pro quirk
      Add 99-video-quirk-default.fdi to Makefile.am

Mestre Adamastor (1):
      fix Sony VGN-SZ2HP_B volume keys

Michael Meeks (1):
      add a ALBA MP3128D as USB music player

Mihai Ile (2):
      Add Sony Walkman NWD-B105 music player.
      add Sony Walkman NWZ-135F music player

Minh Tang (1):
      suspend quirk for a Sony Vaio Z1MP

Nafallo Bjälevik (1):
      add Nokia N95-2 and N96 mobile modems

Nick Steeves (1):
      Add suspend quirk for ThinkPad X32.

Otavio Salvador (3):
      fix modem.command_sets string for Telstra/NextG CDMA modem
      add Motorola G24 USB GPRS Modem (GSM)
      add ZTE CDMA Tech USB modem

Pascal Terjan (1):
      suspend quirk for a Airis machine

Peter Klotz (1):
      added suspend quirks for Acer TravelMate 660 series

Philipp Ittershagen (1):
      add suspend quirks for IBM Thinkpad R50e

Richard Hughes (3):
      Released hal-info 20081013
      Released hal-info 20081022
      add trivial suspend quirk for an IBM 2367AU4

Ruben Romero (1):
      add Nokia E71 modem

Rémi Hérilier (1):
      add keymap for a Fujitsu Amilo Pro V3505

Saleem Abdulrasool (1):
      fix keymap-check.sh to validate keymaps

Sam Morris (2):
      blacklist CD drive of the Huawei E220 USB HSDPA modem
      fixed typo in Samsung Q45 video quirk info

Sandy Armstrong (1):
      add HTC G1 music player (Android phone)

Sjoerd Simons (5):
      black-list GCC-4240N for polling when it is a slave. As it kills the
      don't set s3_bios_power and s3_mode quirks for IBM X31
      set laptop_panel.brightness_in_hardware for the Asus EeePC
      add quirks for Gateway MT6920
      fix syntax error in 20-video-quirk-pm-ibm.fdi

Soeren Sandmann Pedersen (1):
      add keymap entry for video hotkey on Lenovo 3000

Stefano Avallone (1):
      keymap for Sony Vaio VGN-FZ39VN

Stepan Zastupov (1):
      add suspend video quirk for Asus A8N

Stephan Schnitzer (1):
      add Novatel EU870D modem

Stephane Loeuillet (1):
      add ISCI IC1110 music player

Tambet Ingo (1):
      fix modem entry for 0x0af0:0x7011 to use ttyUSB2

Taneli Korri (1):
      added sleep quirk for FSC Amilo M1425

Thomas Dahlmann (2):
      add Nokia mobile modems E70, E90, N95-3
      add LG U990 mobile modem

Till Maas (1):
      suspend quirk for MSI Wind U-100

Tomas Krag (1):
      add Nokia E66 mobile modem

Tyson Whitehead (1):
      added suspend quirk for a HP Compaq 8510w

Ugo Viti (1):
      added suspend quirk for a Sony Vaio VGN-SR11M

dhuggins (1):
      Add suspend quirk for yet another ThinkPad X31 model (2885).

fanen (1):
      Add Nokia 6300 as a GPRS/EDGE modem (CDC ACM)

Артём Попов (1):
      add Motorola C650 modem


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