Halsectomy
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Size: 1982
Comment: hal-cups-utils migration started
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Size: 2118
Comment: libgphoto2 conversion done
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| || GNOME storage handling || gvfs uses Device``Kit-disks now, but still builds hal volume monitor; some gvfs backends such as gphoto need porting to libudev ||<#FFFFCC> 80% || David Zeuthen || | || libgphoto2 camera handling || needs tagging as libgphoto device ([[https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2801117&group_id=8874&atid=308874|patch sent and committed]]); ([[http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/devkit-devel/2009-June/000191.html|discussion]]); udev-extras auto-acl management [[http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/hotplug/udev-extras.git;a=commit;h=eeb632dc3cf4ca51650c15cb278c28b800883bd0|fixed]] as well ||<#CCFFCC> DONE || Martin Pitt || || GNOME storage handling || gvfs uses Device``Kit-disks now, but still builds hal volume monitor; some gvfs backends such as gphoto need porting to libudev ||<#FFFFCC> 50% || David Zeuthen || |
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| || libgphoto2 camera handling || [[http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/devkit-devel/2009-June/000191.html|discussion]]; needs tagging in udev rules instead of fdi files ([[https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2801117&group_id=8874&atid=308874|patch sent]]), and porting of KDE/gvfs ||<#FFCCCC> 20% || Martin Pitt || |
Summary
Hal is in the process of being deprecated, since it has become a large monolithic unmaintainable mess, and also duplicates a lot of functionality which are nowadays provided by udev and the kernel itself. Please see David Zeuthen's and Kay Siever's summaries of plans.
Migration in Karmic
Functionality |
Comment |
Status |
Who |
Device ACLs |
moved to udev-extras |
DONE |
Kay Sievers |
Fn/Multimedia key handling |
moved to udev-extras |
DONE |
Martin Pitt |
GNOME power management |
g-p-m uses DeviceKit-power now |
DONE |
Richard Hughes |
libgphoto2 camera handling |
needs tagging as libgphoto device (patch sent and committed); (discussion); udev-extras auto-acl management fixed as well |
DONE |
Martin Pitt |
GNOME storage handling |
gvfs uses DeviceKit-disks now, but still builds hal volume monitor; some gvfs backends such as gphoto need porting to libudev |
50% |
David Zeuthen |
modems |
NM uses udev modem-prober now; still required by other daemons, though |
80% |
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pm-utils suspend quirks |
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TODO |
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music players |
TODO |
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Pulseaudio |
needs migration to libudev |
TODO |
Lennart Poettering |
X.org input device detection |
needs migration to libudev |
TODO |
Peter Hutterer |
hal-cups-utils printer detection |
needs migration to libudev (discussion started |
TODO |
TBD |
Halsectomy (last edited 2013-05-10 17:41:38 by rrcs-67-78-168-186)