Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:14:21 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Konrad Jankowski <lichave@gmail.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD hotplugging (Hal) info Message-ID: <20080616161421.39263060wa8p0f28@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <48566D63.3090509@telenix.org> References: <4852C94B.2090809@telenix.org> <4854087F.90509@telenix.org> <716a8d5f0806160017y23a29fd4r20190e8b8a198a6@mail.gmail.com> <48566D63.3090509@telenix.org>
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Quoting Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> (from Mon, 16 Jun 2008 =20 09:40:51 -0400): > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Konrad Jankowski wrote: >>> Replying to my own mail, I realize I've worded this badly ... what =20 >>> I meant is, >>> does any part of FreeBSD's base make any use of Hal's (the =20 >>> hardware abstraction >>> layer) API? If it does, and you could tell me where that is =20 >>> (because I can't >> >> Base definitely doesn't use it. >> All you can find in base is devd. > > Well, good news and bad. Dropping the bad news first, I can't grep =20 > for hal or > dbus anywhere in the devd src dir, which I think might mean it's not a dir= ect > user or propagator of hal. OTOH, devd's man page lists devctl, which seem= s > mightily interesting, and could extremely likely be adapted into reporting= to > hal directly. devctl is reporting to devd. There's no relationship to HAL. > My immediate worry is something I picked up from the devctl man =20 > page, that it is > meant for a single reader. Does that mean that I am somehow prevented fro= m > sharing it to both devd (or devfs) AND hal, both? Or, do I manually =20 > (well, via > script) create an extra devctl node? Or, maybe, am I knocking on the door= of > the wrong mailing list? You can let devd issue commands in arrival/departure. > Please let me know, my stubborn streak has seen me too close to the ending= of > this driver of mine to consider stopping now, I just MUST answer this last > feature worry of mine. Ask on gnome@ about dbus, and on x11@ about the X11 HAL stuff. Bye, Alexander. --=20 =09"Fantasies are free." =09"NO!! NO!! It's the thought police!!!!" http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137
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