Carlos E. R. wrote:
I understand that now everything in /dev is created dynamically by the udev system, and udev depends on hal to know what devices are present in the system to create the nodes.
That would obviously make hal a hard requirement.
So the answer is that hald is required, yes - unless you dissable udev as well, and go for a completely static /dev tree.
No, udev suites me just fine. :-) However, what you're saying doesn't sound quite right - from studying the HAL website, HAL seems to be about e.g. hotpluggable devices, typically USB, Firewire but I guess also potentially anything else that's hotpluggable. On a typical server the hotpluggable devices are the powersupplies, the CPUs, the PCI-cards and of course the disks. Do you know if HAL gets involved here too?? /Per Jessen, Zürich -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com