Halsectomy

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|| NM device detection || NM [[ http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=c9067d8fedf6f6f2d530fd68bbfca7ce68638d38|uses gudev now]] ||<#FFFFCC> 90% || Dan Williams || || NM device detection || NM [[ http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=c9067d8fedf6f6f2d530fd68bbfca7ce68638d38|uses gudev now]]; needs upstream release/packaging ||<#FFFFCC> 90% || 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

NM uses gudev now; needs upstream release/packaging

90%

Dan Williams

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

pm-utils suspend quirks

transition hal-info rules to easy format, integrate into pm-utils itself

TODO

music players

TBD stage one: 1-to-1 migration from hal-info to udev rules

TODO

Martin Pitt

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)