DeviceKit and future of HAL

[Michael Biebl]

2009/4/27 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers at vrfy.org>:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 23:45, Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com> wrote:

>>>> Would this be part of udev/udev-extras? Would udev become dependend on D-Bus?
>>>
>>> No. If things work out as planned, DeviceKit, the main daemon, will go
>>> away. Subsystem daemons will subscribe directly to device evens with
>>> libudev. Udev/the kernel will do the event multiplexing/filtering,
>>> there will be no D-Bus involved. It will be part of main udev, not
>>> udev-extras.

What's the idea for platforms like Solaris or FreeBSD (which don't have udev)?


Cheers,
Michael
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