[PATCH] configure: enable udev backend as "auto"

Tiago Vignatti vignatti at freedesktop.org
Tue Mar 23 18:42:15 PDT 2010


Peter Hutterer wrote:
> Due to the checks in configure, this means it gets priority over HAL if
> libudev is found.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
> ---
> Is it time yet to ring the bells on HAL? Fedora's been building with udev
> enabled for quite a while now and IIRC Debian for even longer.
> 
> I think switching to udev as the default for 1.8 is a good idea.

We're setting udev as default on Maemo 6 / MeeGo either. It saves a 
reasonable amount of memory when comparing with dbus + hal.

Acked-by: Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti at nokia.com>


Cheers,

                   Tiago


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