update udev mention in hal docs

Kay Sievers kay.sievers at vrfy.org
Sat May 8 08:38:49 PDT 2004


On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 16:37 +0200, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 00:22 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > Here is a trivial patch to update the udev requirements for hal.
> > 
> > I've already updated it on:
> >   http://freedesktop.org/Software/HalBuildInstructions
> > 
> > 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Note that hal currently installs it own hal.dev in /etc/device.d/default
> because the dbus program shipped with udev needs some improvement as
> outlined in this mail
> 
>  http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=6780866
> 
> The right thing to do would probably be to fix the dbus program shipped
> with udev and deprecate the one shipped with hal. But this is a bit
> difficult to do without using glib or Qt as the fix includes listening
> for messages from the system bus daemon.

Hmm, udev_dbus.dev and hal.dev are very similar at the moment, besides
hal.dev sends on '/org/freedesktop/Hal/Linux/Hotplug'?

What's the difference between the both?

Kay


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