Xorg support to import options for non-Input sections?

Robert Noland rnoland at 2hip.net
Thu May 14 06:44:50 PDT 2009


On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 06:54 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Harald Braumann wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 May 2009 14:41:48 -0700
> > Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> wrote:
> > 
> >> And for non-Linux systems?   HAL is OS-agnostic, udev seems very Linux
> >> specific.
> >>
> > 
> > From http://cgit.freedesktop.org/hal/tree/NEWS:
> > 
> > ---8<----------------------------------------------------------
> > ==========
> > HAL 0.5.13
> > ==========
> > 
> > Released Month 00, 2009.
> > 
> > Requirements for HAL 0.5.13:
> > 
> >  - Linux kernel     >= 2.6.22    (CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n)
> >  - udev             >= 125       (Linux only)
> >  - util-linux-ng    >= 2.15
> >  ...
> > ---8<----------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Doesn't look too OS-agnostic to me. 
> 
> You certain those aren't the requirements for "if using Linux, this
> is the minimum version of these Linux components"?   I haven't checked
> HAL 0.5.13, but we're using HAL & input hotplug on Solaris & OpenSolaris
> successfully today.

As is FreeBSD.

robert.

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Robert Noland <rnoland at 2hip.net>
2Hip Networks
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