Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (485 mails)

[Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 11:33:10PM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 09:58:23AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 08:54:00AM +0200, Martin Schlander wrote:
> > > Torsdag den 24. juni 2010 22:43:30 skrev Stefan Bruens:
> > > > On Tuesday 22 June 2010 15:33:07 Will Stephenson wrote:
> > > > > It's happening now, but the backends are still work in progress.  Due 
> > > > > to
> > > > > poor communications between u*/DeviceKit developers and the rest of 
> > > > > the
> > > > > world and frequent API rewrites, the KDE hardware team decided to wait
> > > > > for those backends to stabilize until writing a Solid backend for 
> > > > > them.
> > > > >
> > > > > Will
> > > >
> > > > I think the switch away from HAL should happen as early as possible - 
> > > > HAL
> > > > is no longer maintained, and although the current Solid backend for HAL 
> > > > is
> > > > in a good shape, there are several things which don't work because it is
> > > > not supported by HAL.
> > > >
> > > > Especially support for advanced disk configurations (e.g. LVM) is
> > > > nonexistent, and the trash implementation relies on proper information
> > > > from solid (i.e, currently HAL). Trashing files on separate data
> > > > partitions becomes a nightmare, as the file will be _moved_ to the home
> > > > partition ...
> > >
> > > And how about the things that are nonexistant in devicekit? ;-)
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeviceKit_versus_SolidHAL
> > >
> > > There's no reason to rush to jump on every experiment that comes from 
> > > certain 
> > > places.
> >
> > So, you want to rely on a package that is unmaintained and unsupported?
> > Are you willing to support it?
>
> I would like to underline that we do support HAL for SLES 11 until, well, 
> forever.

The opensuse-factory mailing list has nothing to do with SLES, so I am
very confused as to why you are bringing this up here...

greg k-h
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