prepare HAL for kernel 2.6.16 mount change event replacement

[Danny Kukawka]

On Thursday 08 December 2005 19:37, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > > Why don't
> > > we just scrap that and start depending on 2.6.15 since it's going to be
> > > out soon, before hal 0.5.6 anyway :-)
> >
> > Yeah, I like to remove that too.
>
> Yup, in the name of progress, we've depended on the latest and greatest
> earlier, so let's just do this again.

If I understand you right, you want to remove the netlink-mount code right now 
for hal 0.5.6 ? If so: I would propose to let the code in the next release 
and add a configure option or check for kernel >= 2.6.15. 

There are maybe many ppl who want to use a new HAL but not a new kernel 
version, because there is e.g. no update kernel from for the distribution or 
something else. I think it would be nice to be a while backward compatible 
(not at runtime, but at least at compile) and remove the code for netlink 
later e.g. with hal >= 0.5.7.

Cheers,

Danny