[OpenIndiana-discuss] HAL replacement

[Albert Lee]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos
<asyropoulos at yahoo.com> 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:

Strictly speaking, Linux udev is highly specific to Linux and not
intended to be adopted elsewhere, and the Linux devfs it replaced has
no relation to Solaris devfs. There were bits of DeviceKit that were
meant to be portable and used udev as a backend on Linux, but
DeviceKit died.


-Albert