[OpenIndiana-discuss] HAL replacement

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Fri Feb 18 20:49:00 UTC 2011


On 02/18/11 11:40 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
>> Is there really anything essential that udev provides that OI's devfs
>> doesn't provide?
> 
> Strictly speaking udev is a "successor" of devfs. What I actually want to know 
> is whether there are plans to implement/port udisks:
> 
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/udisks
> 
> GNOME, KDE, Xorg, and xfce are adopting this technology and soon
> none of them will be fully usable...

Xorg is not using udisks.

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