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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Saturday 11 July 2009 21:31:55 Dale wrote: |
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>> That sounds great to me. I hope it will be easier for everybody than |
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>> this hal, evdev thing. |
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>> I notice there is something devkit in portage already. I wonder if they |
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>> are already working on it? I hope so. |
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> devkit is being actively developed, but it's still early days. It can deal |
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> with a few hardware bits and bobs, IIRC automounting swappable media is one of |
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> them. Some distros are shipping with devkit to do that function (Fedora? |
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> Ubuntu?) and using hal for the remainder. |
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> I reckon it will be a while before we see the last of hal. Personally, I can't |
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> wait for that day to dawn. |
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I did a little checking on what I saw. It appears to be something |
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different from what you are talking about. That said, I'm hoping devkit |
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will have a better layout. What would be neat is to have a file that |
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lists all the hardware supported. When something is connected, it just |
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looks at that file to find out what it is and how to communicate with |
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the device and what it is capable of doing. Being able to ass something |
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to that file would be nice but I bet having it already listed can be |
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done. I'm sure most things are documented somewhere. |
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I'm not holding my breath but thinking something good is on the way sure |
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does help. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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