Can we safely remove those fdi files in hal-info? (original) (raw)
Zhu, Peter J peter.j.zhu at intel.com
Fri Dec 18 22:48:42 PST 2009
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-----Original Message----- From: Victor Lowther [mailto:victor.lowther at gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 11:30 AM To: Martin Pitt Cc: Zhu, Peter J; devkit-devel at lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: Can we safely remove those fdi files in hal-info?
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 08:39 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > 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. No, pm-utils prior to 1.3 requires HAL to be running -- it is smart enough to ask HAL to get the quirks, but it cannot read them straight from the .fdi files. I'm using 1.3-rc3 to avoid HAL and would report any issues I found
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