[PATCH] configure: enable udev backend as "auto"

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Wed Mar 24 18:10:58 PDT 2010


On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 04:06:30PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:08:55AM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > Due to the checks in configure, this means it gets priority over HAL if
> > libudev is found.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
> > ---
> > Is it time yet to ring the bells on HAL? Fedora's been building with udev
> > enabled for quite a while now and IIRC Debian for even longer.
> > 
> > I think switching to udev as the default for 1.8 is a good idea.
> 
> As long as Debian testing and Lucid or whatever are shipping a
> reasonable version of udev by then, sure.
> 
> With that proviso --
> Acked-by: Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org>

well, if not they can still disable it when required. This only changes the
_default_, HAL is still there anyway. I'd rather move off the fdi files as
soon as possible.

Cheers,
  Peter


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