[PATCH 6/8] process non-dependant hotplug events in parallel

Danny Kukawka danny.kukawka at web.de
Wed Mar 12 13:29:44 PDT 2008


On Mittwoch, 12. März 2008, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka at web.de> wrote:
[...]
> >  Hm, overseen something:
> >
> >  This would need at least glib >= 2.14 since g_hash_table_get_keys () was
> > added in this version. Not sure atm if we want to depend on this version
> > atm since it was branched 2007-11-07.
>
> Should that be a problem it would probably be a good idea to ask the
> adopters. If a distro depends on a half year old version of glib (no
> major API breakage introduced by an upgrade) it's possible it will
> stick with whatever version of HAL it currently ships. Within the next
> month most major distros will have to move to glib 2.16 anyway because
> of GNOME dependencies.

I would say we should prevent to go to 2.14 only because one function, also 
because you can solve this with other, already existing functions.

Danny


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