On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Maarten Lankhorst m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Damjan,
Op 02-03-11 18:52, Damjan Jovanovic schreef:
Changelog:
- mountmgr.sys: start detecting USB devices
I'd love to get this kind of work in, but since libhal has been deprecated for a while, wouldn't it be better to use libudev directly instead of expanding our usage of libhal?
Cheers, Maarten
Hi Maarten
I see the deprecation of HAL as a major loss for everybody. HAL was the one piece of software that worked on multiple *nixes and allowed a portable way for software to detect hardware and read hardware properties. HAL's replacements, like udev, have deteriorated to being 100% Linux-only: if we go that way we'll eventually end up detecting hardware using OS-specific code on each OS [1][2].
If HAL is not acceptable for detecting USB devices, then I'd rather use only libusb to do it, instead of hacking support for each operating system in its own way.
Regards Damjan
[1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/DeviceKit ("On Linux, ... On other platforms, native hardware enumeration systems should be used"). [2] eg. DragonFlyBSD only has vague plans to port DeviceKit: http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issue1477