[arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.34-2

[Andreas Radke]

Am Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:49:58 -0500
schrieb Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:

> On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de>
> wrote:
> > News draft:
> >
> > Xorg 1.8 moves to extra:
> >
> > This release works with udev for input hotplugging and
> > supports /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*.conf as replacement for the hal .fdi
> > files. After upgrading to this release, configuration for input
> > devices in hal is ignored. Documentation about this change can be
> > found on:
> ...ignored and running hal is no longer necessary. (right?)
> 

hal is not necessary anymore for Xorg but other apps are still using it,
e.g. Xfce's Thunar for storage device hotplugging.

Not sure how far the replacements are in other parts.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/HalRemoval for more.

-Andy