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Re: [SLE] Is there any real purpose for hald on a server-only system?
- From: Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 18:00:41 +0200
- Message-id: <e86679$jh5$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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
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> 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
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