hal: Branch 'master'

[David Zeuthen]

On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 19:33 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Montag, 27. August 2007, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > > IMO this change is at least suboptimal within RC status of HAL.
> >
> > It's not really optimal, I agree. But it should be a rather minimal
> > change (either in hal or the kpowersave / powersaved) packages;
> 
> Not if you don't be able to force your users to use a recent HAL version. 
> KPowersave e.g. support: recommended: >= 0.5.8.1 and without this change it 
> would also work with 0.5.10 without changes. Now we have either to double the 
> calls to check both names of possible policies or to fill the code with 
> ifdef's

Yeah, if you want to support several versions of the same codebase
sometimes you have to do that. I'd be surprised if it's a lot of effort
to add #ifdef's for this; in how many places to you use these strings?

> The big problem is that RC1 of HAL 0.5.10 (which already had a dependency to 
> the new released PK v0.4) is already out some weeks and this change would 
> obsolete all testing in this area.

I'm not so sure that all testing would be obsoleted; the main change
we're talking about is a few changes to how actions are declared and
what their names are. The rest of the changes from PK 0.4 to HEAD are
mainly docs being rearranged / improved, some changes to how updates are
made and some stability fixes.

      David