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

Zhu, Peter J peter.j.zhu at intel.com
Wed Dec 16 17:05:28 PST 2009

-----Original Message----- From: Martin Pitt [mailto:martin.pitt at ubuntu.com] Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 2:57 AM To: Zhu, Peter J Cc: devkit-devel at lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: Can we safely remove those fdi files in hal-info?

Zhu, Peter J [2009-12-16 23:06 +0800]: > 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. DK-Disks and hal are independent of each other and provide services to applications. DK-Disks doesn't need the fdi files, but of course it might well be that some of your installed programs need HAL. For example, current KDE uses hal, and a lot of applications (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Halsectomy for an incomplete list)

Martin, I surely understand DK-disks and hal can coexist and DK-disks deosn't use the fdi files. I also undertand many of fdi files are provided so that upper apps in desktop stack can deal with them easily rather than talking to kernel directly like 10-camera-mtp, 10-usb-pda, 10-usb-obex, 10-scanner. I'm asking if the function of the three storage related files are COVERED(NOT used) by DK-disks or udisks. For example, we all know the battery recall information fdi are covered by DK-power already, keymap fdi files are covered by udev extra keymap rule....

Peter

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