Can we safely remove those fdi files in hal-info?

[Zhu, Peter J]

Hi Martin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Pitt [mailto:martin.pitt at ubuntu.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 3:39 PM
> To: Zhu, Peter J
> Cc: devkit-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: Can we safely remove those fdi files in hal-info?
> 
> Hello Peter,
> 
> Zhu, Peter J [2009-12-14 20:16 +0800]:
> > Can we safely remove
> > /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-usb-card-readers.fdi,
> > /usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/10osvendor/10-ide-drives.fdi and
> > /usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/10osvendor/20-broken-usb-sticks.fdi from
> > a system with DeviceKit-disks/udisk?
> 
> The decisive factor is not if you
> have DK-disks installed, but if you have hal installed. If you have a
> system without hal, then you won't need the entire hal-info (and thus
> those fdi files) either. The exception is pm-utils prior to 1.3, which
> can read the suspend quirks straight from fdi files without going
> through hal.
> 
I surely understand the three files are for HAL. I'm thinking of remove HAL totally from a distribution. TO make this possible, it's a must to remove hal-info so I'm taking a look at all files in hal-info. These three files should be related to storage device processing so I'm guessing if it's covered by DeviceKit-disks but not sure. So I asked this here.

Thanks,
Peter