[systemd-devel] What is the recommended way to replace hald hooks in the systemd world?

[Barry Scott]

On Friday 15 July 2011 13:58:16 Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Fri, 15.07.11 11:14, Barry Scott (barry.scott at onelan.co.uk) wrote:
> 
> > In F13 days we used HAL to call out to our code to handle
> > adding and removal of USB storage with this
> > /etc/hal/fdi/policy/90-onelan-mount.fdi policy file.
> > 
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > <deviceinfo version="0.2">
> >     <device>
> >         <match key="volume.fsusage" string="filesystem">
> >             <match key="@info.parent:storage.bus" string="usb">
> >                 <append key="info.callouts.add" type="strlist">ntb_mount_usb -v</append>
> >                 <append key="info.callouts.remove" type="strlist">ntb_mount_usb -v</append>
> >             </match>
> >         </match>
> >     </device>
> > </deviceinfo>
> > 
> > Do you recommmend staying with hal in F15 or using some other mechanism?
> 
> You can use udev rules. to pull this in.

Thanks for the pointer. I used udev and created these rules:

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="block", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", RUN+="/usr/local/onelan/ntb/bin/ntb_mount_usb"
ACTION=="remove", SUBSYSTEM=="block", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", RUN+="/usr/local/onelan/ntb/bin/ntb_mount_usb"

Barry