[illumos-Developer] HAL (or maybe Udev?)

[Joerg Schilling]

Gordon Ross <gordon.w.ross at gmail.com> wrote:

> If we're considering investing in this area, we should also consider
> the alternative of implementing something compatible with the newer
> Udev/Udisk/Upower interfaces.  (Google for that for more info:)
> BTW, I'd rather not debate HAL vs Udev here.  There's already plenty
> of debate on that.
> Just a suggestion to whoever decides to put time into this:  please
> look at both.

I did already mention that neither of these implementations looks at the users 
of their code and define behavior that breaks existing software (e.g. cdrecord).
If we introduce new software, it should be able to co-exist with other software.

Jörg

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