Halsectomy
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Comment: update network-manager status
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| || Pulseaudio || migrated to libudev in git head (not released yet) ||<#FFFFCC> 80% || Lennart Poettering || | || NM device detection || NM [[ http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=c9067d8fedf6f6f2d530fd68bbfca7ce68638d38|uses gudev now]] ||<#FFFFCC> 90% || Dan Williams || || Pulseaudio || migrated to libudev in git head (not released yet) ||<#FFFFCC> 90% || Lennart Poettering || |
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| || NM modem handling || NM uses udev modem-prober now, but still refers to hal-info ||<#FFFFCC> 80% || Dan Williams || |
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; libgphoto2_port/disk/disk.c falls back to /etc/mtab reading without hal, which is functionally equivalent |
DONE |
Martin Pitt |
NM device detection |
90% |
Dan Williams |
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Pulseaudio |
migrated to libudev in git head (not released yet) |
90% |
Lennart Poettering |
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 |
connman/other daemons modem handling |
TBD |
TODO |
Martin Pitt will ask Alexander Sack |
pm-utils suspend quirks |
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TODO |
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music players |
TODO |
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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)