From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MPtjU-0005AB-Kn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:44:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 817EBE0349; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:44:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f191.google.com (mail-yx0-f191.google.com [209.85.210.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6854DE0349 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:44:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe29 with SMTP id 29so2776106yxe.32 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:44:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=HMzVT9EzSAhZmZddGGYP9O9EbjkD0XlA39XmQiumwHk=; b=dbrVV6/DUv1zS0Iv9FMh3Bx3RqVH8Rlh0YPdtMZtRBXpoTMDWSZL7PL44RpJoXSc7g zhk6jbJ1blGlXKvCa0bIJBTw7DSpHCi3Nug8t5VcQipizR4mrk9fdC0Y4mS+BMmCN4jk NOQQTEDIoKhe+4R7kJ1mPlbpat4FeknyP1uGQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=r3KiNDneqeaZKDBEZ2Zwm3UG3lNgj3QjXC71XTFuug2dDQcwtPJnMmDJNbrdEzu6Zm qtRTy4IT7UL49Cq/mrzTj/CmRrrQnm6TwEBsTpf8u8Uhydw69F2ZokMOttN/fRS7byNO 5Sy4AMrjItEtJXs8AzxPiwXrxBzgUrCp1VZaU= Received: by 10.100.6.16 with SMTP id 16mr5340032anf.52.1247384662096; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:44:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?64.89.164.209? (r164h209.dixie-net.com [64.89.164.209]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c9sm2958132ana.4.2009.07.12.00.44.19 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:44:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A59944C.1070300@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:44:12 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090628 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] :-@ Reversing xorg-server, hal and evdev. References: <4A5768A4.2020609@gmail.com> <4A587AED.6070602@coolmail.se> <4A58E8AB.3070301@gmail.com> <200907120916.14852.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200907120916.14852.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0dad93f6-ed6c-4479-bdc9-afa95131205c X-Archives-Hash: 4129a09a88bdc95eecc523c035ff6ebb Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 11 July 2009 21:31:55 Dale wrote: > >> That sounds great to me. I hope it will be easier for everybody than >> this hal, evdev thing. >> >> I notice there is something devkit in portage already. I wonder if they >> are already working on it? I hope so. >> > > devkit is being actively developed, but it's still early days. It can deal > with a few hardware bits and bobs, IIRC automounting swappable media is one of > them. Some distros are shipping with devkit to do that function (Fedora? > Ubuntu?) and using hal for the remainder. > > I reckon it will be a while before we see the last of hal. Personally, I can't > wait for that day to dawn. > > I did a little checking on what I saw. It appears to be something different from what you are talking about. That said, I'm hoping devkit will have a better layout. What would be neat is to have a file that lists all the hardware supported. When something is connected, it just looks at that file to find out what it is and how to communicate with the device and what it is capable of doing. Being able to ass something to that file would be nice but I bet having it already listed can be done. I'm sure most things are documented somewhere. I'm not holding my breath but thinking something good is on the way sure does help. Dale :-) :-)