mdev hal backend

[Natanael Copa]

On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 10:20 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 06 November 2009 08:50:03 Natanael Copa wrote:
> > One issue i have had is to get the xorg hotplugging work properly. I
> > think the only thing that is missing is a hal backend for mdev.
> > 
> > Now, the question is, do we really want mdev go that way? udev isnt that
> > big. On the other hand, mdev is pretty small and nice. And have a nicer
> > syntax for config. But I'd prefer not support both udev and mdev config
> > files.
> 
> what exactly is a "hal backend" ? 

  --with-backend=<name>   backend to use (linux/solaris/freebsd/dummy)
Looking at the sources, the linux backend is a "connector" to udev,
freebsd backend listens to devd events and solaris does similar for
solaris stuff.

>  i'd also point out that hal is dead garbage 
> and being replaced by the *Kits.

Right. But there are no InputKit project started afaik so xorg input
device hotplugging will still require hal for some time.

The busybox hald backend would only need provide the stuff thats not
provided by *Kits. xorg Input devices, in other words.

> > While I'm at it, would be nice with an /etc/mdev.d/ dir where packages
> > like qemu could install an /etc/mdev.d/kvm file and similar.
> 
> sounds like a reasonable config option and should be easy to support.  patches 
> welcome ;).

yeah i know. I was thinking in case someone had too much sparetime and
was bored... ;)

> -mike

-nc