Status of HEAD

[David Zeuthen]

On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 15:55 +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> It get the distinct impression that HEAD isn't quite up to par with the 
> stable branch. 

It's coming along nicely when I'm not fixing bugs on the stable
branch or reading mail :-)

> The bus and class handlers seem to have been scrapped.

Due to things being a lot simpler (thanks to Kay's udev work) all
that is now contained in

 hald/linux2/physdev.c
 hald/linux2/classdev.c

instead of being in separate files. I hope you agree it's nice
this way.
 
> And the devices found aren't quite the same as in the stable version.
> Does any documentation about the changes exist? Or will I have a 
> delightful afternoon of digging through the new code? =)
> 

The only major piece missing is block devices. Btw, due to how
things work now, you should use the run-hald.sh script to
launch the hal daemon from a local checkout, since some
paths needs to be added to PATH.

When it's on par with 0.4.x I'll send a message with what is
changed and then we can start doing 0.5.x releases for a few
months while we continue to add new features. I plan to put
this in FC4test1 to get some wider testing, so it will happen
pretty soon.

Cheers,
David


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