[illumos-Developer] HAL

[Owen Shepherd]

On 12 Oct 2010, at 17:11, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> Owen Shepherd wrote:
>> Isn't Hal deprecated by it's author anyway? I'f my memory serves me
>> correctly then it should be a goal to move off Hal anyway.
> 
> Yes, but they've only provided replacements for Linux systems, the
> udisks/upower/etc. series of extensions to the Linux udev framework.
> (DeviceKit was an interim step to those, but they killed DeviceKit
> as well in favor of the u* interfaces, and churned through API's
> in the process.)

Gyaaah! More Linux specific silliness along the same lines as ALSA...

	- Owen
(Seriously, don't get me started on ALSA...)