From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1InGEH-0001mR-5s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:15:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9VGEikT002249; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:14:44 GMT Received: from mail.marples.name (rsm.demon.co.uk [80.177.111.50]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9VGCGGL031478 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:12:16 GMT Received: from [10.73.1.31] (uberlaptop.marples.name [10.73.1.31]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.marples.name (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD0C2190104 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:12:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Resolving HAL vs. pciutils/usbutils From: Roy Marples To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4728A1D2.4020801@gentoo.org> References: <20071031015605.GY22369@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> <47285D05.6090300@gentoo.org> <4728A1D2.4020801@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Gentoo Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:12:14 +0000 Message-Id: <1193847134.6975.0.camel@uberlaptop.marples.name> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9ed79f2a-87bb-4ef3-9e55-8931d0124dab X-Archives-Hash: 31eaae4227a6b2e6250701b199dbe4dc On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 11:40 -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote: > When HAL evaluated the usage of libpci the following issues were > identified: > 1) increased memory usage, to the point that HAL was not usable on the > OLPC project > 2) ABI breakage between patch revisions (i.e. x.y.z and x.y.z+1 were > not ABI compatible) > 3) no shared library > 4) the library calls exit() when it encounters an error in parsing it's > own pci.ids file which would kill the whole app using it. > > There might have been more. I don't remember. Refer to ML discussions > and refer to IRC logs with me. Begs the question why does HAL use libpci in the first place. Thanks Roy -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list