Hal 0.5.0

[Kay Sievers]

On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 14:31 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 19:02 +0000, Christian Metzen wrote:
> > But one more Question about Hal, is it normal that it now takes much 
> > more Time when starting up the Service. It needs about 5 seconds or so 
> > when booting the System only to start HAL. The Version before was much 
> > faster with the startup. Or have som much more tThings been implemented?
> > 
> 
> Yeah, we wait for device probing to complete before forking - the real
> solution to this problem, in the grand view of things, is to fix how
> init(1) works :-)

Yeah, parallel init definitely helps here.

Also the new udevdb dump may help a bit. The next udev version will be
able to send its whole database with one call into the starting HAL
instead of letting HAL invoke udevinfo for every device HAL needs to
query the node name.

Kay

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