Halsectomy
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 need porting to libudev (cdda, gphoto, obexftp) |
50% |
David Zeuthen |
10-usb-music-players.fdi |
discussion; stage one: 1-to-1 migration from hal-info to udev rules and .ini files for properties; script written, call for comments |
50% |
Martin Pitt |
Rhythmbox music player detection |
|
TODO |
|
Banshee music player detection |
|
TODO |
|
Amarok music player detection |
|
TODO |
|
pm-utils suspend quirks |
transition hal-info rules to easy format, integrate into pm-utils itself |
TODO |
|
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 |