communication between UDEV and HALD

[Danny Kukawka]

Hi,

current HAL (from git) don't use udevmonitor anymore. @Kay: any comments on 
this mail?

On Freitag, 19. September 2008, Girish Hilage wrote:
>    I am using Fedora Core 8 machine.
>    I am running "udevmonitor --kernel --udev" :
>
>    A. In case 'hald' is running it shows following events :
>        add (when I plugin the CD ROM)
>        remove (when I plugout the CD ROM)
>        umount (when I eject the CD ROM)
>        mount (when I insert the CD ROM)
>
>    B. In case 'hald' is stopped I can only see add,remove events but not
> the umount,mount events.

You mean your manual umount/mount events or what? If you don't do automatic 
mount handling you can't IMO see anything, since then nobody mount/umount.

>    So, I have following queries :
>        1. why I can not see umount and mount in case B above
>        2. how 'hald' and 'udev' communicate. Is there any document
> available on this?

The source code ;-)

>        3. if I use 'hald' then is 'automount' not required

Depends on your setup. You can use automount or HAL or both ...

>        4. how 'automount' and 'udev' communicate

automount?

Danny