hal Digest, Vol 13, Issue 56

[David Zeuthen]

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 05:49 -0700, Arvind Ayyangar wrote:

> I "feel" the GDL is maintaied by hal so that the other applications
> like g-v-m,g-p-m which change/query the device properties remain light
> and a consistent database is maintained by HAL. This seems to be the
> main fuction of HAL, is it? 

Yup. GDL is short for global device list. It's just a list of objects
defined by hal that abstracts the hardware more or less.

    David


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