From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:39:27 +0000 Subject: Re: Hardware Abstraction Layer Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 03:30:38PM +0200, David Zeuthen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently working on a hardware abstraction layer, see > > http://pdx.freedesktop.org/~hal/ > > for use in desktop environments such as GNOME or KDE. The HAL project > is in it's early stages - there is a draft spec planned and I got an > implementation running as well. How does this differ from D-BUS? Hm, in looking at your page, it says you are using D-BUS messages. Oh, have you looked at udev too? It will handle naming the devices for you in /dev. > I want to hear how you think we can cooperate, by e.g. having > /sbin/hotplug send events to hald. Note that the HAL aims at a range of > UNIX-like systems, but I think we can handle that requirement... I use > GNU/Linux myself. As was already posted, anyone can get /sbin/hotplug events by just dropping a link into the proper directory. Also, D-BUS messages will be created for all /sbin/hotplug events too. You might want to work with that if it's easier for you. Hope this helps, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel