On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 08:18:18PM -0400, JeremyBekka C wrote: > > Hi Jeremy, > > > I have a question about the deprecated program hal. We like to stream > > videos from Amazon.com but we need hal installed in order to make it work. > > The Hal Debian wiki says that it is being deprecated and it is being > > replaced by udev (https://wiki.debian.org/hal). Since vdev is being > > written to replace udev, are there any plans to incorperate hal's functions > > into vdev or keep maintaining it seperaratly? > > > > Do you know what specific functions of hal you need? Hal's functionality > got split between udisks/udisks2, upower, and udev some time ago. Things > like device plug state, device properties, and device capabilities are now > tracked by udev (in /run/udev) and accessed by libudev, for example. My > goal for vdev is to be compatible with udev, so if you can use udev today, > you should be able to use vdev when it's ready. > > Thanks, > Jude
Hal is used "for DRM", which in the context of Flash and the period of development almost certainly is "Digital 'Rights' Management". I would presume from the fact that one can load the flashplayer without it that the library is dlopen'd. I've looked at https://github.com/cshorler/hal-flash, and here's what I can make out: - This version uses dbus to connect to udisks2 for everything it doesn't stub out. I guess glib is used extensively. - Answers the following "property strings" for devices in libhal_device_get_property_string(): system.hardware.serial, storage.bus, storage.serial In libhal_device_get_property_uint64(), only storage.size is answered. In libhal_manager_find_device_string_match(), a query about key "storage.drive_type", value "disk", returns a list of hard drives. storage.bus seems to be more-or-less "ata", NULL, or ... something else, I don't know what. I'm not sure if storage.size is free space or total size, but it's an unsigned 64-bit value. The system serial numbers are stored in /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/*_serial but are chmod 0400 (readable only to root). libhal_device_get_property_{int,double}() are stubs. HTH, Isaac Dunham _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
