Can we safely remove those fdi files in hal-info? (original) (raw)

Zhu, Peter J peter.j.zhu at intel.com
Wed Dec 16 07:06:15 PST 2009

Hi Martin

-----Original Message----- From: Martin Pitt [mailto:martin.pitt at ubuntu.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 3:39 PM To: Zhu, Peter J Cc: devkit-devel at lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: Can we safely remove those fdi files in hal-info?

Hello Peter, Zhu, Peter J [2009-12-14 20:16 +0800]: > Can we safely remove > /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-usb-card-readers.fdi, > /usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/10osvendor/10-ide-drives.fdi and > /usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/10osvendor/20-broken-usb-sticks.fdi from > a system with DeviceKit-disks/udisk? The decisive factor is not if you have DK-disks installed, but if you have hal installed. If you have a system without hal, then you won't need the entire hal-info (and thus those fdi files) either. The exception is pm-utils prior to 1.3, which can read the suspend quirks straight from fdi files without going through hal. I surely understand the three files are for HAL. I'm thinking of remove HAL totally from a distribution. TO make this possible, it's a must to remove hal-info so I'm taking a look at all files in hal-info. These three files should be related to storage device processing so I'm guessing if it's covered by DeviceKit-disks but not sure. So I asked this here.

Thanks, Peter

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