========== HAL 0.5.14 "Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye." ========== Released November 30, 2009. Requirements for HAL 0.5.14: - Linux kernel >= 2.6.22 (CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n) - udev >= 125 (Linux only) - util-linux-ng >= 2.15 - bash >= 2.0 - dbus >= 0.61 (with glib bindings) - glib >= 2.10.0 - expat >= 1.95.8 - hal-info >= 20080310 (older versions can work too) - libusb >= 0.1.10a (optional) - pciutils >= 2.2.3 (optional) - dmidecode >= 2.7 (optional) - parted >= 1.7.1 (optional) - cryptsetup-luks >= 1.0.1 (optional, needs LUKS patches) - libsmbios >= 0.13.4 (optional, for DELL machines, Linux only, prefered version >= 2.0.3) - dellWirelessCtl >= 0.13.4 (optional, for Dell machines, must live in /usr/bin/, Linux only, prefered version >= 2.0.3) - gperf >= 3.0.3-2 (optional, for Re-map multimedia keys, Linux only) - PolicyKit >= 0.5 (optional) - ConsoleKit >= 0.2.0 (optional, needed if use PolicyKit) - pm-utils >= 0.99.2 or newer (optional) Contributors to HAL 0.5.14: Arnout Vandecappelle (1): don't remove scsi_host if there are still targets using it Aurelien Jarno (2): Fix build failure on GNU/kFreeBSD generalize keyboard detection code for FreeBSD C. Scott Ananian (1): remove action_parameters from DBus XML for IsCallerPrivileged Danny Kukawka (40): fixed commit 36d076bf26350e022731cb7c2c9f4e840dd25e37 move ssb bus code to the correct place add SSB bus to SPEC cleanup: don't set udi manually if hal_device_set_udi() was used add IBM Ebus to SPEC hide more MBR, bootstrap and other partitions from desktop fix code doc for resolve_udiprop_path() hald_dbus.c: fix DBusError handling hald_runner.c: fix usage of DBusError ci-tracker.c: fix usage of DBusError ck-tracker.c: fix usage of DBusError more DBusError fixes another DBusError fix fix configure to get --disable-console-kit working fix probe-ieee1394-unit.c DBusError and LibHalContext handling fix DBusError handling in probe directory free string after usage fix usage of deprected g_io_channel_seek() replace deprecated g_basename() with g_path_get_basename() replace another deprecated g_basename() with g_path_get_basename() replace deprecated g_strcasecmp() with g_ascii_strcasecmp() fix DBusError handling in linux addon directory Merge branch 'master' of ssh://dkukawka@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal fix compiler warning in libhal-storage fix commit 141ca8cd7b768ddefa1bfaa563cbef4337e32b7c extend debug message in device_reprobe() fix hotplug_event_process_queue() to get reprobe working handle keyboard backlight leds via org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KeyboardBacklight changed massif-hald.sh to work the same way as run-hald.sh changed valgrind-hald.sh to write a logfile fix memory leaks due to usage of g_path_get_basename() add hald/valgrind.log to .gitignore fix memory leak in acpi_button_add() in error case fix memory leak due to usage of g_strdup() fix DBusError handling in freebsd code adopted version of commit 122e41a10 to fix docking stations add keyboard_backlight.* and *.num_levels to led class update SPEC with kbd_backlight(.*) and leds.num_levels always set leds.num_levels since it's mandatory add a check for leds.num_levels to addon-leds.c Dmitry Torokhov (1): Correctly identify touchpads Drew Moseley (1): add libhal_device_property_remove_watch_all() to libhal Frederic Crozat (1): hide Windows recovery partitions on pre-installed Futjisu laptops Joe Marcus Clarke (17): re-enable libvolume_id support for FreeBSD add USB2 support to the FreeBSD backend add support for reading ufsids add some missing storage properties add USB2 support fix support for power and brightness management fix a problem building the FreeBSD backend add USB2 support add support for mouse device probing add support for Fuse mounts add support for newer GEOM types add support for polling of mouse devices add missing LDADD and CFLAGS for addon-mouse.c add locking support to the storage addon update time handling functions ignore probe devices fix DBusError handling and a memory leak Johannes Hessellund (1): read brightness from actual_brightness and not from brightness Kay Sievers (1): configure.in: require blkid >= 2.15 from util-linux-ng Maciej Grela (1): Remove the 512 byte limit for PATH in hald.c Martin Poole (1): Fix a segfault in the mdraid code -- see rh#507782 for more info Michael Biebl (7): Make libhald_freebsd_probe.la a noinst library. fix a misleading warning in ondemand_set_consider_nice() Fix a crasher in hal_util_get_last_element Fix unconditional usage of PATH_MAX Support relative paths in umount.hal list "relatime" as valid mount option on Linux. Fix build failures with binutils-gold ========== HAL 0.5.13 ========== Released July 15, 2009. Requirements for HAL 0.5.13: - Linux kernel >= 2.6.22 (CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n) - udev >= 125 (Linux only) - util-linux-ng >= 2.15 - bash >= 2.0 - dbus >= 0.61 (with glib bindings) - glib >= 2.10.0 - expat >= 1.95.8 - hal-info >= 20080310 (older versions can work too) - libusb >= 0.1.10a (optional) - pciutils >= 2.2.3 (optional) - dmidecode >= 2.7 (optional) - parted >= 1.7.1 (optional) - cryptsetup-luks >= 1.0.1 (optional, needs LUKS patches) - libsmbios >= 0.13.4 (optional, for DELL machines, Linux only, prefered version >= 2.0.3) - dellWirelessCtl >= 0.13.4 (optional, for Dell machines, must live in /usr/bin/, Linux only, prefered version >= 2.0.3) - gperf >= 3.0.3-2 (optional, for Re-map multimedia keys, Linux only) - PolicyKit >= 0.5 (optional) - ConsoleKit >= 0.2.0 (optional, needed if use PolicyKit) - pm-utils >= 0.99.2 or newer (optional) Contributors to HAL 0.5.13: Andrey Borzenkov (1): work aroud crash caused by LED device handling Aurelien Jarno (4): use the "freebsd" backend on GNU/kFreeBSD fix compilation of hald/freebsd/hf-storage.c disable power-pmu and sonypic if __FreeBSD_kernel__ is defined hald/freebsd/libprobe/hfp-cdrom.h: use C99 types Chris Coulson (1): fix crash when assembling certain MD devices Danny Kukawka (14): remove special serial tablet handling for HP tc4200 set default udev_prefix to ${exec_prefix}/lib in configure.in define new (sub-)namespace(s) for smart card reader define ACL and device-access policy for smart_card_reader ignore ADD events if there is already a device with same sysfs_path fix sound_compute_udi(): sound.card is int and not a string Revert "add ACL policy for smartcard readers" added new properties: org.freedesktop.Hal.version(.*) fixed compiler warning cleaned up hal-storage-mount code Kay Sievers (4): remove broken ASCII 240 chars from C files probe-volume: remove needless check for empty fstype use $libexecdir not $libdir/hal to define private hal directory use AM_SILENT_RULES if available Martin Pitt (7): post-release bump for 0.5.13 add ACL policy for smartcard readers add hal-set-property --direct addon-acpi.c: Support acpid [BSD] use instead of 10-x11-input.fdi: Add tablets add input.keys capability to input buttons Matthew Garrett (1): add support for devices on the SSB bus Michael Meeks (1): optimize resolve_udiprop_path() Pavan Naregundi (1): add suport for /sys/bus/ibmebus Simon Munton (1): fixed segfault in hal-storage-mount Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (1): addon-input: add KEY_ZOOM ========== HAL 0.5.12 ========== Released May 12, 2009. Requirements for HAL 0.5.12: - Linux kernel >= 2.6.22 (CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n) - udev >= 125 (Linux only) - util-linux-ng >= 2.15 - bash >= 2.0 - dbus >= 0.61 (with glib bindings) - glib >= 2.10.0 - expat >= 1.95.8 - hal-info >= 20080310 (older versions can work too) - libusb >= 0.1.10a (optional) - pciutils >= 2.2.3 (optional) - dmidecode >= 2.7 (optional) - parted >= 1.7.1 (optional) - cryptsetup-luks >= 1.0.1 (optional, needs LUKS patches) - libsmbios >= 0.13.4 (optional, for DELL machines, Linux only, prefered version >= 2.0.3) - dellWirelessCtl >= 0.13.4 (optional, for Dell machines, must live in /usr/bin/, Linux only, prefered version >= 2.0.3) - gperf >= 3.0.3-2 (optional, for Re-map multimedia keys, Linux only) - PolicyKit >= 0.5 (optional) - ConsoleKit >= 0.2.0 (optional, needed if use PolicyKit) - pm-utils >= 0.99.2 or newer (optional) Contributors to HAL 0.5.12 : Alex Kanavin (1): add ACL rule an policy for obex devices Andreas Schwab (1): fixed buffer overrun Arjan van de Ven (1): make hal start a lot faster Colin Walters (1): aallowllow calling KillSwitch methods in D-Bus configuration Daniel Drake (1): disable polling on batteries if battery.quirk.do_not_poll is set Daniel Walsh (1): don't leak file descriptor on umount Danny Kukawka (142): added system.board.* for base-/mainboard information removed info about hal-device-manager from spec fixed memory leaks related to usage of g_strsplit fixed fdi.dtd for the remove rule updated SPEC for power_management.quirk.pci_save fix PMU battery and AC handling with power_supply fixed PropertyModified signal in SPEC and code fixed possible memory leak remove storage.model property from volumes reuse code in addons to check privileges updated .gitignore fixed merge for uint64 added new addon for the generic sysfs backlight interface fix detection of TabletPCs fixed device removage fixed 10-tabletPCs.fdi added hald-addon-generic-backlight to .gitignore added new addon for the ipw killswitch interface add hald-addon-ipw-killswitch to .gitignore fixed Lock() handling unify directory usage under /var/run added check for ConsoleKit >= v0.3.1 to configure allow acl and user_xattr as mount options for reiserfs removed needless whitespaces at the end of lines fix DBus introspection for org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager ported addon-macbook-backlight to use HAL logging code fixed cpufreq addon to call setup_logger() added configure check for libsmbios >= 2.0.3 use smi::getPasswordStatus() only if available use udevadm instead of (deprecated) udevinfo add requirements for next release (0.5.12) fixed wrong condition in libsmbios checks don't use hal_util_compute_udi directly inside of hald added linux rfkill subsystem to HAL add *.tar.bz2 to .gitignore get storage.model for SCSI via HDIO_GET_IDENTITY instead of sysfs remove unneeded variable from commit 702351eaea4 add battery.quirk.do_not_poll to spec removed deprecated properties from spec removed outdated deprecated keys finally from spec Revert "allow 'locale=' NTFS mount option for Linux" unify set volume.ignore for recovery partitions Revert "adapt HAL to changes in the kernel regarding to docking stations" fix udi: replace '/' in the last part of the udi prefer sans-serif instead of luxi sans in css file fixed formatting of org.freedesktop.Hal.SingletonAddon in spec keep subsystem/devhandler in alphabetical order add ppdev subsystem add support for virtual network devices added obex namespace to spec sort device access policies/actions alphabetical add ACL rule and policy for ppdev fixed ACL rules for PDAs add support for detect DVD-R DL for storage.cdrom.dvdrdl fixed spec for vio bus allow also PCI as possible storage.bus add support for the BDI subsystem add bdi namespace to spec add support for bdi bases block devices add bdi to storage.bus spec fixed storage.bus spec to sort values in alphabetical order reorganise spec: sort 'Subsystem-Specific Properties' alphabetical reorganise spec: sort 'Functional Properties' alphabetical reorganise spec: sort 'D-Bus interfaces' alphabetical add biometric and biometric.fingerprint_reader namespace added ACL/device access rules for fingerprint reader small cleanup for configure.in added volume.(un)mount.valid_options to spec added new properties to mount alternative fstypes as e.g. ntfs-3g added support for alternative fstype to Mount() Merge branch 'master' of ssh://dkukawka@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal added comment to not change order of usb and usbclass handler Revert "add support for the BDI subsystem" revert BDI changes from SPEC Revert "add support for bdi bases block devices" remove generic sysfs backlight from scripts add volume.fstype.alternative.prefered to spec add support for HP Smart Array CCISS block devices add cciss as possible storage.bus to spec fixed md related code in hotplug_event_begin_add_blockdev() check module parameter of acpi video to set brightness_in_hardware fixed typo, adjust description of volume.fstype.alternative.preferred fix handling of Device Mapper devices for LUKS fix commit 151957477daaf985acdb2d7bda5b4a418c612cf3 Merged changes from git.freedesktop.org/git/hal.git (315ca276ffdde9a) cleanup handling volume filesystem information fix commit d29ea6b31b67bf540b23dfedfa1b7add4c22bce2 another fix for commit d29ea6b31b67bf540b23dfedfa1b7add4c22bce2 add memstick and memstick_host namespace to spec add memstick to storage.bus in spec fixed call of hotplug_queue_now_empty() under linux Revert "cleanup handling volume filesystem information" improve HAL performance for filesystem detection add a new singleton addon for the rfkill subsystem add new killswitch.state property fixed ipw addon Merge branch 'master' of ssh://dkukawka@people.freedesktop.org/~dkukawka/hal add the leds linux kernel subsystem to HAL add a new singleton addon to handle leds update .gitignore for hald/linux/addons add org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Leds interface to spec fix joystick detection (patch by Ari Mustonen) fix ACL handling for drm devices fixed serial.port handling for USB serial devices add ACL support for scsi_generic scanner devices Merge branch 'master' of ssh://dkukawka@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal Merge branch 'master' of ssh://dkukawka@people.freedesktop.org/~dkukawka/hal fix make distcheck fixing spec for access_control.type due to Policykit changes fix spec due to path/filename changes with actual PolicyKit Merge branch 'master' of ssh://dkukawka@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal remove policy rule for org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.VideoAdapterPM remove second policy context="default" block put policy rules in alphabetical order fix policy for org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch add DBus policy rule for org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Leds add DBus policy rule for org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.CPUFreq add DBus policy rule for org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LightSensor add D-Bus policy rule for org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KeyboardBacklight add D-Bus policy rule for org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.Removable add org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.WakeOnLan to HAL D-Bus config add org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage to HAL D-Bus config add org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.DockStation to HAL D-Bus config add org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties standard iterface remove all receive_* lines from HAL D-Bus config fixed HAL D-Bus config: added send_destination for all interfaces add some parameter checks to hal_util_*et_driver*() functions add section about "Device Files policies" to spec put usbraw matches for ACL together into one block use addset instead of append for ACL rules add ACL and device-access policy for printers update spec for printer access policy filled TODOs with information for the printer namespace sort existing PolicyKit policies for device access alphabetical add current default policies for device access to spec fixed entries to add acl related keys only if there is a device fix commit 33b54318f73012e24220456216794dd3ff39fc93 provide comparable linux kernel version information fix problems with removable-block policy and floppy devs move all storage/block related policies to one block Merge branch 'master' of ssh://dkukawka@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal fix commit 92e7f2e8b2a1a36d3ec2b371424719e7078d91da Frederic Crozat (1): adapt new CK library version (>= v0.3.1) to HAL Gabriel Burt (1): export seconds_to_sleep to pm-utils Guillem Jover (9): add mmc_host slot_name support do not compare arrays against NULL addon-cpufreq: do not leak va_arg on error condition do not leak on error conditions fix some memory leaks on normal operation remove unused pointer to struct mntent returned from getmntent_r do not call property_set_lookup before checking param validity remove unused call to hal_util_get_last_element make Magneto-Optical devices visible Holger Freyther (1): allow to cross compile hal with host and target having different input.h Holger Macht (1): adapt HAL to changes in the kernel regarding to docking stations Johannes Berg (2): use 'phy80211' instead of 'wiphy' symlink to detect wireless use wext ioctl instead of sysfs to detect wireless Jürg Billeter (1): inserts the sysfs path at the right position for call udevadm Kay Sievers (2): use '@' for abstract namespace socket, bump udev requirement move from libvolume_id to libblkid Kouhei Sutou (1): add support for detecting DVD-R DL media Lucas Rocha (1): probe for v4l only if probe for v4l2 failed Ludwig Nussel (3): merge additional device access types from hal-resmgr hal-acl-tool: don't free strings that are not supposed to be freed fix ACL handling for removable block devices (as CD/DVD) Makoto Dei (1): include config.h before any other headers Mario Limonciello (3): check if BIOS password is present prior to use libsmbios commands fix Dell bluetooth killswitch fix building with current libsmbios Markus Rothe (1): fix issue on 64bit big endian architectures. Martin Pitt (7): volume.num_blocks can become larger than 2G increase hal helper timeout to fix slow CD-ROMs add ACL support to removable block devices fix building on Linux 2.6.28 fix auto ACL management for DRI fix volume label parsing fix volume.num_blocks data type in libhal-storage Matthew Garrett (3): Add newer Macbook Pros, and remove the backlight addon for Nvidia-based Pros (it doesn't work there) add memstick/memstick_host support don't add input capabilities to tablet PNP device Michael Biebl (1): allow uid/gid mount option for ntfs Ozan Çağlayan (1): fix SUSBSYSTEM typo in a debug message Pacho Ramos (1): prevent hal from automounting Dell recovery partition Patrick Campbell (1): set Xen storage drive type Paul Bolle (1): add zoom and ThinkPad events to acpi addon for IBM/Lenovo Philipp Ittershagen (1): add save-pci support to hal-system-power-suspend-linux Rafał Mużyło (1): fix some configure issues Richard Hughes (11): fix a crash when the rfkill device does not have a type revert a tiny bit of the device ording change as it breaks printer detection remove the forced removal of the trailing newline to fix OLPC probing prefer openfirmware interface for DMI even when dmidecode is found in the path check udi in hal-get-property set the retval of hal-device correctly on error allow child timeout to be set so hal starts on big servers Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://hughsient@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal add x11_driver for KVM graphics tablet allow specifying a udev dir in etc regenerate cache if it's zero sized Rémi Cardona (1): add libtool-2.2 support Scott James Remnant (1): install udev rule to /lib/udev/rules.d/ ========== HAL 0.5.11 ========== Released May 08, 2008. Requirements for HAL 0.5.11: - Linux kernel >= 2.6.19 - util-linux >= 2.12r1 (--enable-umount-helper requires patch from RH #188193; it's in util-linux-ng 2.13) - bash >= 2.0 - udev >= 111 (Linux only) - dbus >= 0.61 (with glib bindings) - glib >= 2.10.0 - expat >= 1.95.8 - hal-info >= 20080310 (older versions can work too) - libusb >= 0.1.10a (optional) - pciutils >= 2.2.3 (optional) - dmidecode >= 2.7 (optional) - parted >= 1.7.1 (optional) - cryptsetup-luks >= 1.0.1 (optional, needs LUKS patches) - libsmbios >= 0.13.4 (optional, for DELL machines, Linux only) - dellWirelessCtl >= 0.13.4 (optional, for Dell machines, must live in /usr/bin/, Linux only) - gperf >= 3.0.3-2 (optional, for Re-map multimedia keys, Linux only) - PolicyKit >= 0.5 (optional) - ConsoleKit >= 0.2.0 (optional, needed if use PolicyKit) - pm-utils >= 0.99.2 or newer (optional) Contributors to HAL 0.5.11 : Andreas Schwab (1): fixed broken alignment Andy Shevchenko (3): add support for the SDIO bus add support of the 'mmc.type' parameter added properties description for the SDIO bus to SPEC Ben Liblit (2): add support for SW_RADIO switches added support for software bluetooth killswitch for ThinkPads Colin Watson (1): add ps3 system bus support Dan Williams (1): add a 'modem' capability and namespace Danny Kukawka (108): fix GSList related memory leaks added missing file from commit eb6d5b9c make new scripts for WOL executable quick fix for make dist/distcheck due to WOL fixed missing includes partly for gcc 4.3 update dmi chassis types fix hal to work with libsmbios v0.13.12 removed double definition of HAL_HELPER_TIMEOUT fix possible segfault if singletons is NULL cleanup device.c fix endless loop on empty match rules in fdi-files fix possible segfault if compiled without IDs fix compiler error, remove braceright added some more checks to partutil code linux: add drm subsystem add udi and some more checks to libhal fix some whitespaces remove all childs of a device if it get removed don't Eject() on dm-devices add Dell laptop panel device only if dcdbas is loaded linux: ignore uevents for modules and driver read dmi info from sysfs instead of call dmidecode prevent flood syslog if battery remaining time is above 60 hours cleanup set_suspend_hibernate_keys() fix endless loop in storage-addon don't add pci devices without pci vendor/product ID fix possible segfault on fdi-cache recreation fix normalised_rate if dis-/charging state is unknown fix build errors with D-Bus versions < v1.0 lshal: use -l as default for --show set laptop_panel.brightness_in_hardware=true for all Dell fix percentage for empty batteries close fd-leaks in hald-addon-input fix fd.o bug 5865 - don't set percentag if chargelevel is 0 fix compiler warning from cgcc/sparse fix configure for libparted updated chassis types fixed Dell WWAN part to work as e.g. WLAN part remove function in acpi.c which get only called once added error handling for hal_util_get_*int*_from_file() fixed acpi addon to prevent unneeded calls fixed power_supply_refresh() for batteries fixed refresh_battery_slow() for power_supply batteries fixed power_supply_compute_udi() to generate useful UDIs fixed refresh_battery_fast() for power_supply: battery.*.rate fixed device_pm_abstract_props() to set also battery.charge_level.design fixed refresh_battery_fast() for power_supply devices power_supply battery: moved static stuff to refresh_battery_slow() fixed power_supply primary batteries to update values get battery.voltage.design on ACPI power_supply batteries ignore NameAcquired signal on org.freedesktop.DBus fixed cpufreq addon to ignore nonrelevant messages fix call hald-generate-fdi-cache, removed --force argument add more useful debug output on UTF-8 problems added already existing PDA namespace to the SPEC removed deprecated and outdated info.bus removed deprecated and outdated *.physical_device removed deprecated and outdated smbios.* keys fix hald-addon-dell-backlight AC detection s/LIBHAL_CHECK_LIBHALCONTEXT/LIBHAL_CHECK_PARAM_VALID/ ignore temporary cryptsetup devices added MacBook Pro 3,1 support for fdi-file fix/cleanup ThinkPad bluetooth switch script code vio bus: added type of vio bus and changed info.product/udi updated spec for existing storage.bus types generate better udis for virtual storage devices fixed compiler warning from sparse/gcc fixed an other compiler warning from cgcc/sparse remove readded deprecated keys from code and provide a fdi-file instead fixed compiler warning about different signed parameter make crypto-setup policy description more clear fixed possible segfault from fd.o bug #14947 added portable_audio_player.storage_device to spec added support for Tablet PCs document already existing pnp namespace in the spec cleanup code, removed separate calls to set info.udi cleanup poll_for_media() in addon-storage.c fixed typo from commit d2b2baf9912b36def7856b6bfa5c60fc942bbcba update .gitignore removed unused GList *hotplug_events_blocked fix policy file for org.freedesktop.hal.dockstation.* update .gitignore for hald-addon-imac-backlight add 10-imac-backlight.fdi to Makefile Revert "fix building with g++ 4.3" fixed compiler warning for 64bit related to usage of GQuark fixed several addons to build correctly cleanup TODO: remove implemented 'Singleton addon' cleanup TODO: removed already implemented 'depends only on pm-utils' autofix primary (ACPI) batteries which charge with a rate > 50 W updated NEWS file for upcomming release clean up Apple releted fdi-files added --use-syslog option to man page fixed usage of realpath() fixed SPEC: s/alsa.device_pcm_class/alsa.pcm_class/ fixed check for return value of uname() fixed quoting for DELL_WCTL add support for VMBus updated SPEC for VMBus removed deprecated keys usb_device.*_bcd fixed UDI generation for VMBus devices fixed a bunch of compiler warnings from the Intel compiler fixed error handling in linux scripts cleaned up hal-ipw-killswitch-linux fixed KillSwitch linux scripts for Dell to return better errormsg fix macbook-backlight for ix86 fixed make distcheck for validating polkit policy files fixed usage of info.subsystem and linux.subsystem add documentation for the linux namespace to the spec David Woodhouse (2): add vio support add support for of_platform subsystem David Zeuthen (14): add methods and libhal api to get all devices in properties in one call provide a new org.fd.Hal.D.Storage.Removable interface for polling media fix build fix /sbin/umount.hal to avoid always returning error if it succeeded cowardly adding back info.bus for usb and usb_device for now support scsi hosts even when they don't have a physical device fix warnings from polkit-policy-file-validate when using PolicyKit HEAD post-release version bump to 0.5.11 print more debug information comment out debugging spew for now properly serialize the calls to 'hal-acl-tool --reconfigure' also bring back a deprecated key to unbreak NetworkManager remove use of at_console in the D-Bus configuration file default to use CK and PK by default and print warning if PK is not found Faidon Liambotis (1): add a WWAN (Wireless WAN/Cellular) killswitch for Dell laptops Florent Mertens (1): linear MD device are not syncable Frederic Crozat (3): fix for int_outof fix addon exiting on system bus restart fix crash in libhal_ctx_shutdown Georges Discry (1): add ufstype= as allowed mount option for UFS Guillem Jover (12): fixed possible inifinite loop when removing trailing spaces fixed indentation fix file descriptor leaks on error conditions libhal: do not dereference *reason_why_locked if it's NULL dereference pointer after checking it's not NULL probe-net-bluetooth: get property from env instead of asking hald switch probe-net-bluetooth to use changesets libhal: fix memory leaks after out of memory conditions add missing semicolon lost in the cleanup libhal: unref DBusMessages as soon as possible add a video4linux capabilities prober partutil: make the get endian functions alignment aware Holger Macht (4): add support for Wake On LAN new interface org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.DockStation fix dock station status detection on undock operation output errors to stderr and provide a description Jeff Mitchell (1): Saw that the description here hadn't been updated from long-ago changes. Jeremy Katz (1): add suport for the virtio bus Joe Marcus Clarke (55): handle the case where ACPI reports the rate as all ones bump the copyright year recover from devd being restarted add support for net.80203.rate and net.freebsd.ifindex probe all PCI buses add support for medium_changer devices add MBREXT support bump the copyright year remove the need for cdrtools and add MBREXT support improve support for removable media USB SCSI devices add a kqueue file monitor add a kqueue file monitor clean up some compiler warnings correct a typo fix numerours bugs, plug some leaks, and avoid a race condition do not do volume label munging remove errant '\' include logger.h fix build on non-Linux platforms conditionalize some dependencies and fix bashisms add ext3fs support for FreeBSD remove redundant prototypes do not check the return of g_new0 adapt mount and eject functions for FreeBSD add Blu-Ray and HD-DVD support fix a typo with HD-DVD support fix a crash searching for devices do not probe audio and blank CDs for file systems correct some typos add two new form factors restore deprecated properties initialize the file monitor in osspec_privileged_init set the storage.removable.support_async_notification property fix up the device store searching code properly add the Eject method to Volumes on FreeBSD correct a comment add DRM device support add nvidia support call callouts after FDI mapping is complete do not assume a SCSI cdb size of 16 don't shrink the cdb size add video4linux support add support for Philips webcam devices avoid code duplication properly map ATAPICAM devices to their underlying ATA device re-add the info.bus properties re-add net.physical_device property re-remove deprecated keys add large as a valid vfat mount option for FreeBSD check storage.media_check_enabled before polling the device properly escape the UDI fix crash on 64-bit platforms call libhal_device_addon_is_ready() make sure the block device is added before probing it add support for the CheckForMedia message Jon Oberheide (1): fix input addon to handle G_IO_NVAL situations Kevin Page (1): add ACL policy for Palm PDA device files Kyle McMartin (1): fix hal see same battery twice from sysfs and proc Linus Walleij (1): add acls to USB based audio players Lubomir Kundrak (3): apply ACLs even if acl list reading failed move acl-list from /var/lib/hal/ to /var/run/hal fix for the acl-list patch change Marcel Holtmann (2): fixed unneeded libusb linking within libhal add bridge classification support Martin Pitt (1): fix building with g++ 4.3 Martin Szulecki (1): add iMac (x86 linux) backlight addon Michael Biebl (1): fix implicit pointer conversion Michael E Brown (1): fix version check code for libmsbios in configure.in Olaf Hering (1): added vio storage bus support Richard Hughes (1): fix the battery reporting when using CONFIG_POWER_SUPPLY Rob Taylor (17): add --with-linux-input-header configure switch make massif-hald.sh give more useful output the singleton hash not yet initialised is not an error fix uninitialised memory usage in pci_add bump GLib dependancy to 2.10 remove autogenerated file from git use slices for HalProperty use g_slice for hotplug events process coldplug events as soon as they're generated rework handling of data from udevinfo for more efficient memory usage use GQuarks for property keys. process non-dependant hotplug events in parallel set 'linux.sysfs_path' as an indexed property compute udis that are unique in the gdl and tdl Fix memory leak in property_index_check_all Add backwards compat wrapper for g_hash_table_get_keys Revert "process non-dependant hotplug events in parallel" Sjoerd Simons (12): assign pid to a gint64 before passing it as an _INT64 in a dbus message use GString to convert a strlist propery to string instead of a static buffer when initial disc type detection fails fall back to a alternate detection method fix the keyboard addon to not ignore key repeat events always define DELL_WCTL implement osspec_privileged_init in the dummy backend get rid of PATH_MAX users to allow compilation on the Hurd let hal-system-power-pmu return FALSE on hurd ensure match rules are always stored before writing the jump_position in the cache add missing functions in the dummy osspec backend get battery serial number from sysfs make portable_audio_player.access_method.protocols mandatory and clarify portable_audio_player.[drivername].protocol Sven Neumann (1): use g_timeout_add_seconds() where appropriate if glib 2.14 is available Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (2): fixed a typo in variable name: is_mah -> is_mWh fixed typo in power_supply code Vinay Reddy (1): Add input.mouse capability to VMware's absolute USB mouse ========== HAL 0.5.10 "Humanity's children are returning home" ========== Released October 11, 2007. Requirements for HAL 0.5.10 "Humanity's children are returning home": - Linux kernel >= 2.6.19 - util-linux >= 2.12r1 (--enable-umount-helper requires patch from RH #188193; it's in util-linux-ng 2.13) - bash >= 2.0 - udev >= 111 (Linux only) - dbus >= 0.61 (with glib bindings) - glib >= 2.6.0 - expat >= 1.95.8 - hal-info >= 20071011 (older works too) - libusb >= 0.1.10a (optional) - pciutils >= 2.2.3 (optional) - dmidecode >= 2.7 (optional) - parted == 1.7.1, 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.86, 1.87 (optional) - cryptsetup-luks >= 1.0.1 (optional, needs LUKS patches) - libsmbios >= 0.13.4 (optional, for DELL machines, Linux only) - dellWirelessCtl >= 0.13.4 (optional, for Dell machines, must live in /usr/bin/, Linux only) - gperf >= 3.0.3-2 (optional, for Re-map multimedia keys, Linux only) - PolicyKit >= 0.5 (optional) - ConsoleKit >= 0.2.0 (optional, needed if use PolicyKit) - pm-utils >= 0.99.2 or newer (optional) Contributors to HAL 0.5.10 "Humanity's children are returning home": Adel Gadllah (1): ipw killswitch support Andrey Borzenkov (1): allow IDE media detection if /proc/ide is missing Bastien Nocera (2): define new property power_management.quirk.none add bluray support Bill Nottingham (1): handle 'move' events for network devices Daniel Drake (1): don't die if /proc/mdstat doesn't exist Daniel Stone (3): autogen.sh: srcdir != objdir safety add input.xkb properties add input.x11_driver Danny Kukawka (47): fix problem with repeated property-changed signals fix build without policykit enabled/available fixed make distcheck by remove hal-lock.policy from Makefile.am fix contains_not fdi-directive only start one hald-addon-input addon fix possible segfault in probe-volume if vid->type == NULL fix problems with case if vid->label[0] is '\0' fix detection of libusb fix hald_runner_kill_all() remove brightness-up event from acpi addon for IBM fix return type of SetPowerSave() updated allowed libparted versions set info.category='laptop_panel' for all laptop panels don't compile Re-map keys without gperf replace '/' in volume labels with '_' if part of UDI s/HAVE_GPERF/have_gperf/ in configure results overview Merge branch 'master' of ssh://dkukawka@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal fix usage of g_list_free1() to fit HAL requirements Merge branch 'master' of ssh://dkukawka@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal free volumelabel from commit 2d1d72e8 fix API documentation of libhal fix compiler warning and error in if statement fix build errors with D-Bus versions < v1.0 cleanup DBusError handling in addon-acpi main_loop() stop hald-addon-dell-backlight if needed kernel module isni't loaded fixed compiler warning about unused return value of asprintf() fixed PolicyKit detection to check for >= 0.4 fix get ACPI version from sysfs (fd.o #11290) fixed return type of libhal_ctx_init_direct() fixed libhal code docu use hardcoded paths to sysfs and proc fix possible segfault on serial device check fix compilerwarning in serial_get_prober() allow gid= for hfs, remove uid= for hfs+ and handle hfs like fat source hal-functions in hal-luks-teardown fix hal-ipw-killswitch-linux to return status of killswitch fix detection of system.formfactor=laptop for ACPI machines fixed typo in PMU code fixed changeset handling for HAL_PROPERTY_TYPE_STRLIST fix detection of storage.cdrom.*_speed* values (fd.o 10399) fix indirections in fdi files fix indirections in fdi files (prepend/append copy_property) add more parameter checks to libhal add new fdi directives *_outof add soundcard device and fix device_file handling added power_management.quirk.no_fb to spec forward ThinkPad ACPI event for killswitch David Zeuthen (83): post-release version bump to version 0.5.10 update spec to mention input.* capabilities remove i18n support remove hal-device-manager remove TODO about about deleting hal-device-manager fix lock checking for LUKS setup/teardown port HAL over to use PolicyKit master remote safety valves used in development briefly note in the spec how the PermissionDeniedByPolicy exception works clarify how access control now that our PolicyKit support works add a note to the TODO about that we shouldn't use setfacl(1) directly make distcheck happy again and remove ChangeLog from tarballs for run-hald.sh + friends move fdi+privilege 'make install' to /tmp file monitoring interface use new file monitoring interface and integrate witk PK master use the new file monitor abstraction to watch fdi directories silence debug spew from the file monitor add the "-extra-options" privileges for mounting don't include hal-file-monitor.c in hald/linux/osspec.c libpolkit changed a bit; update to new API prefix CK object paths with /org/fd/CK so PolicyKit gets the right path add back ChangeLog changes to cope with PolicyKit mass renaming take advantage of new parameter API in PolKitAction also update man page for hal-is-caller-privileged update to compile cleanly with PolicyKit master Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal remove use of "action parameters" now that they're going in PolicyKit changes to compile against recent PolicyKit policy definitions are now XML files in PolicKit master document Bluetooth ACL / SCO, fixup UDI generation and make coldplug work change namespace for bluez-specific properties recognize touchpads + add TODO about sorting out input device classification forgot to add hal-lock.policy properties in net.bluetooth.* are not Bluez specific; remove bluez_ prefix pass correct options to pm-suspend also pass correct options for pm-hibernate introduce new operator incorporate autotools changes recognize Linux MD aka Software RAID devices use correct integer size create lock file with predictable permissions actually return INT32 rather than UINT32 to adhere to the spec also change type from uint32_t to int32_t add a note about making addons aware of suspend/resume make return value for method calls implemented via programs be UINT32 add suport for ACLAdded and ACLRemoved signals on Device.AccessControl if add the code in hal-acl-tool to emit ACLAdded and ACLRemoved signals change PolicyKit policy such only active sessions have access to devices add Macbook2,1 support for backlight control update to new API in PolicyKit 0.3 Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal set system.hardware.primary_video.[vendor,product] keys add docs for new system.hardware.primary_video.* properties only match on Apple, not "Apple Computer, Inc." for macbook (pro) backlight fix up location of hal-ipw-killswitch-linux and add copyright+license header fix build work with PK head avoid emitting hotplug events during coldplug shut up some debugging info avoid polling SATA AN capable drives and rely on "change" uevents document the storage.removable.support_async_notification property update to work with PK HEAD include elements in PK policy files fix up how we detect Apple laptops the PK policy files move to $datadir from $sysconfdir use correct mode for open(3p) fix libhal_psi_has_more() incorrect behavior support for ACL on USB devices where the device node is on the real device update to work with PolicyKit HEAD use direct connection if available avoid setting SELinux context on the PolKitCaller object if it's non-existant Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal handle the fact that event%d is no longer a child of input%d Revert "make return value for method calls implemented via programs be UINT32" require PolicyKit 0.5 update hal-setup-keymap-hash-name.h split the "can setup LUKS?" action into two actions (removable/fixed) fix last commit for LUKS; forgot to refact error handling bump fdi generation timeout to 60s skip the ACL entry instead of bailing out when using bad fdi files fix segfault when setting up keymap Dirk Mueller (1): fix header to compile with -pedantic Dirk Müller (1): fixed access of freed memory Doug Goldstein (8): fix fdi cache regen logic error use stdlib.h not malloc.h fix how we build partutil fdi spec fixes and correct implementation the runner doesn't handle D-Bus disconnect properly fix trivial bugs in hald-generate-fdi-cache add missing uint64 matching to fdi.dtd hal-disable-polling symlink support Faidon Liambotis (1): fix misplacement of the ipw killswitch Frederic Crozat (3): allow flush for vfat allow acl, user_xattr on ext2 handle renaming of SG_FLAG_LUN_INHIBIT in sg.h Guillem Jover (3): rename hal-addon-keyboard to hal-addon-input generalize keyboard detection code update configure.in and use autoreconf Holger Macht (2): fixup return value documentation of CPUFreq interface readd information about the SetCPUFreqGovernor method Jeff Mitchell (5): New parts of the portable_audio_player spec as discussed on the ML. More accurate information handed down to me from higher-ups. Older pre-MTP devices are actually mostly PDE, not PTP. Formatting fix Deprecate portable_audio_player.access_method because recent spec changes have rendered it useless at best and misleading at worst. Provide some extra information as to what information should be put in the sub-namespaces. Joe Marcus Clarke (2): do not re-probe devices that are managed by hald-addon-storage fix compilation on FreeBSD Julius Schulz-Zander (1): fix speling of AC adapter Kay Sievers (4): creating link /dev/root to device / is mounted from volume_id: prepare for future API changes volume_id: update version requirement in configure.in hotplug: handle "change" events for unknown devices as "add" Kristian Høgsberg (1): update firewire prober to use correct ioctl codes Luiz Augusto von Dentz (2): properly recognize Bluetooth SCO and ACL devices recognize bluetooth network capabilities Martin Pitt (2): allow 'utf8' mount option for NTFS support more Macbook Pro models Martin Szulecki (1): fix Macbook Backlight not working after waking up from suspend to ram Michael Biebl (1): install hal-is-caller-privileged.1 manpage conditionally Richard Hughes (40): trivial, don't try to make device-manager add special button device for LENOVO also make verbosity optional in create cache. fix some more .gitignore Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://hughsient@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal add keymap capabilities into hal make hal-setup-keymap.c use strerr rather than stdout fix matching devices against dmi properties on the computer device add newlines to error text in hal-setup-keymap.c fix i8042 KBD keyboard mapping fix build when gperf is not installed add two more strings to the battery technology list add hal_util_get_bool_from_file convenience helper only allows the use of pm-utils for suspend, hibernate and suspend-hybrid propagate --quirk-none to pm-utils Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://hughsient@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal add power_management.quirk.reset_brightness add debug message when we remove a device when the prober fails Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://hughsient@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal add a refresh handler for linux devices add device_pm.{c|h} to abstract out some of the common code dont use util_compute_percentage_charge in apm use device_pm_* in pmu.c use device_pm_* in acpi.c remove util_compute_percentage_charge add the power_supply abstract battery fix some warnings in the device_pm code add ups and usb power supply types and set battery.type key power_supply current is measured in ua not uw correct two typos to the power_supply code add battery type 'usb' into the spec Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://hughsient@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal we only support pm-utils for SetLowPowerMode fix the input parameter for the SetPowerSave method Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://hughsient@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal update to latest keycode input from linus add recovery partitions by other vendors add another dell recovery partition add two more recovery partitions for acer initialise the error in the acpi watcher Rob Taylor (6): add hald-runner support for singleton addons hald core support for singleton addons libhal support for addon singletons convert libhal to use a hashtable for property sets convert linux addon-input into a singleton addon document singleton addons Ruediger Oertel (1): fixed configure for macbook addons to build also on x86_64 Sjoerd Simons (3): free changeset elements keys free changeset elements keys Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal ========== HAL 0.5.9 "Precipice" ========== Released April 2, 2007. Requirements for HAL 0.5.9 "Precipice": - Linux kernel >= 2.6.17 - util-linux >= 2.12r1 (--enable-umount-helper requires patch from RH #188193) - bash >= 2.0 - udev >= 089 - dbus >= 0.61 (with glib bindings) - glib >= 2.6.0 - expat >= 1.95.8 - hal-info >= 20070402 - libusb >= 0.1.10a (optional) - pciutils >= 2.2.3 (optional - dmidecode >= 2.7 (optional) - parted == 1.7.1, 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.86 (optional) - cryptsetup-luks >= 1.0.1 (optional, needs LUKS patches) - libsmbios >= 0.13.4 (optional for DELL machines, Linux only) - dellWirelessCtl >= 0.13.4 (optional, for Dell machines, must live in /usr/bin/, Linux only) - ConsoleKit >= 0.2.0 - pm-utils >= 0.99.2 or newer (optional) Contributors to HAL 0.5.9 "Precipice": Alex Kanavin (1): provide textual interface description for USB devices Andreas Hanke (1): fixes for AS_AC_EXPAND usage breaks hal-device-manager Artem Kachitchkine (5): hald/linux/ids -> hald/ids and minor fixes fix minor memory leaks do not let tools coredump if HAL is not running Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal solaris backend Bastien Nocera (1): killswitch infrastructure for Bluetooth and use /dev/sonypi instead of spicctrl Dan Nicholson (1): POSIX shells do not support '==' tests Daniel Nylander (1): added Swedish translation file Danny Kukawka (63): replaced LIBHAL_FREE_DBUS_ERROR with dbus_error_free() fixed acpi problems with incorrect low current voltage values fixed usage of dbus_error_is_set(error == NULL) due to D-Bus changes fixed detection of wireless devices with dscape kernel stack fix copy_property for merge in FDI files replace usage of g_assert() with error handling Merge branch 'master' of ssh://dkukawka@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal add hardware dependent/specific alsa sound devices to HAL fixed compiler warning fixed automake for linux fixed typo in 20-storage-methods.fdi remove unneeded close() calls fixed code docu in libhal removed not needed '.in' version of a luks script fixed segmentation fault in xen code Fix to guarantee that udi get generated before process FDI changed error handling for hal-storage-shared.c fixed detection of libsmbios to check for >= v0.11.6 changed D-Bus error if /sbin/cryptsetup is not available remove sanitizing passwords for luks and prevent word splitting/path expansion fix detection of max. available omnibook brightness levels fix get/set brightness for sonypi/spiccrtl added new section for deprecated properties to spec fixed compiler warnings fix .hal-mtab mountpoint handling detect path to dmidecode on runtime (fd.o bug #9318) added hald-addon-dell-backlight to .gitignore fix gtk-doc code documentation fix (more) gtk-doc code documentation fixed typo in spec add copy_property FDI directive for stringlist properties fixed compiler warning in addon-dell-backlight fixed compiler warning fix compiler warning in libhal fixed compiler warning in create_cache.c fixed commit 882085a0, forgot cast to unsigned long typo fix fixed uid datatype in CallerInfo to unsigned long added new fdi match attribute 'contains_not' for strings and strlist added hald-probe-ieee1394-unit to .gitignore libhal: validate parameter to be != NULL fix expat detection in configure fixed code documentation added some files to .gitignore removed not needed string from translation files added support for ALSA MIDI devices validate error D-Bus names returned on stderror change usb*.version_bcd/usb*.speed_bcd to new double keys added hal-system-power-pm-is-supported to .gitignore fixed libsmbios search output to correct version updated requirements in NEWS file void hal-device-manager to open multiple about dialogs fix for new pciutils which need to link against zlib Merge branch 'master' of ssh://dkukawka@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal fix configure for DELL stuff fixed quoting and added allowed libparted versions to error output added .gitignore to new doc/man dir update several .gitignore files added optional support for IBM ACPI (hotkey) events. added configure option to enable build Toshiba ACPI button addon add more cdrom information update .gitignore updated German translation file David Woodhouse (1): fix crash on PPC Pegasos that don't have PMU, ACPI or APM David Zeuthen (196): post-release version bump to 0.5.9 fix race condition when unmounting a volume takes a very long time don't lock the .hal-mtab file at all when checking mount status on unmount don't update mount state until Unmount() returns fix stupid typo in syslog reporting for Mount() only install PolicyKit privilege files if we're using PolicyKit only require libvolume_id >= 061 write new requirements for 0.5.9 including requiring udev >= 089 don't fail, print warning if ARPHRD_IEEE80211_{RADIOTAP,PRISM} is not defined fix up overflow of 32-bit variable when getting 64-bit value remove unneeded debug send changes in correct order for LibHalChangeSet remove dead code introduced by commit 0ae1aed74548fec563399d00100d621ce99b383b enable looking for data track on optical discs export Eject() even on discs where we can't detect a file system probe for partitions on data discs where we fail to detect an fs add a note about checking that optical drives supports the cmd's we are sending don't build Macbook Pro utils on non-x86 Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal remove gtk-doc tmpl files from source control make cpufreq support optional make Macbook Pro utils x86 only again split out Macbook Pro matching into separate fdi file make usb csr support optional fix up typo in usb csr detection stat special device file, not the mount point don't crash on cd drives without write capabilities don't add non-existing partition entries for MS-DOS disk labels add some thoughts about optimization work needed make it easier to measure startup time some memory optimization work clean up HalDevice and HalProperty a bit make HalProperty private to HalDevice implementation (makes it easier to nuke) use an iterator to iterate over strlist instead of using GSList switch device_info.c to use strlist iterator fix crasher in GetProperty() method use a hash table for device properties implement missing functions after move to hash table properties removed unneeded and fragile async matching from device store move property code into device object core free hash table before the private object to prevent segfault Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal switch running_processes to using a list + fix a few memory leaks Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal revert hald/device_info.c back to state from June 2006 forward port changes made to hald/device_info.c since June 2006 fix segfault on cleaning up rules report how much memory the rules use comment out some debugging spew from fdi matching use mmap to access pci.ids and usb.ids make pnp.ids static to save writable memory add note about possibly handling multi-session discs a bit better fix setting power_management.is_powersave_set misc build fixes for libparted and libpci fix for freeing static memory + move hal_util_readlink() into hald/util.c fix up compile warnings after last patch call dbus_error_free() directly to avoid spew on stderr fix up libsmbios detection fix up how volume.ignore is set so it also applies to hotpluggable drives fix up a few things with the new fdi cache reduce debugging spew for fdi files add optional support for ConsoleKit Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal make HAL track ConsoleKit seats and sessions and initial work on ACL mgmt Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal fix up coding style for hald_runner.c more CK and ACL mgmt work remove autogenarated HTML as it clutters up the commit logs more ACL management work; now it's actually usuable fix typo for HALD_ACTION for session changes use $(localstatedir) instead of /var and make hald DTRT when CK goes away add ACL management for remaining devices recognized by HAL clean up some dangerous use of the LIBHAL_FREE_DBUS_ERROR macro remove annoying LIBHAL_FREE_DBUS_ERROR spew to stderr build time for /sbin/umount.hal and make our mount helper use this make umount.hal work when options like -v are passed to umount make /sbin/umount.hal handle mounts points as well use -Wl,--as-needed by default for gcc Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal make hald-addon-storage use hints from ConsoleKit about session idleness make hald-addon-storage usage of ConsoleKit depend on HAVE_CONKIT update dependencies and versions for HAL only invoke hal-acl-tool if HAVE_ACLMGMT is set update NEWS to suggest latest hal-info (for bluetooth killswitch changes) use g_ascii_strtoull() instead of g_ascii_strtoll() refuse to eject if we can't open the device exclusively with Linux's libata, IDE Zip drives can now be polled for media changes add support for new Firewire stack on Linux handle multiple / remote seats make lshal print the current time print out error if probe-volume hangs fix input probing and discard /proc/acpi events if ACPI sysfs sources are used make Device.Rescan() work for refreshing button state when using ACPI input use inotify to watch fdi directories map new fdi cache file post regeneration minor fixes probe firewire AVC devices sort properties in lshal output move preprobe fdi files to hal-info fix detection of mounted volumes from yanked storage devices fix device removal when mounted devices not mounted by HAL are yanked out on Rescan() for ACPI batteries, retrieve all properties (slow path) assign ACL's to Firewire IIDC (including iSight) and AVC devices generate the fdi cache synchronously avoid old .bak files for the fdi cache relax error handling for fdi files fix up debug- and valgrind- scripts to actually work don't give ACL's to uid 0 Revert "without PolicyKit, allow only root to mount fixed disks" stop using noexec by default on Linux instead of assuming they're blank, probe unknown discs if they're large some fixes to make distcheck work again Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal fix build Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal make the fdi cache test stricter by not allowing skipped fdi files avoid "Not Specified" values as these stem from dmidecode itself add workaround for gtk-doc for now (bgo #386508) also make sure libhal.types is empty avoid setting pci.vendor, pci.product, usb.vendor to useless "Unknown (XXX)" Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal fix up memory handling of exp_detail and remove dead code define 'scanner' capability add ACL's for scanners add support for SuspendHybrid and make use of pm-is-supported fix typo fix umount.hal so correct return value is passed use libsmbios to add support for bluetooth, wlan RF kill on Dell laptops forgot to add 10-rfkill-switch.fdi (renamed from 10-bluetooth-switch.fdi) avoid logging when client asks for non-existant property fix segfault in lshal where strlist prop was removed just after it changed add named mandatory locking API remove dead code switch to xmlto and heavily fix up the spec fix up introspection bits more spec changes move caller tracking into it's own class refactor access control checks into separate files add interface locking and remove generic locking API committed yesterday don't set INVOKED_BY_SYSTEMBUS_CONNECTION_NAME unless call is from bus add docs for how locking work fixup speling for Dell, disable physical killswitch when setting power don't disk example-manager.py as it doesn't exist anymore don't dist hal-linux26.dia either since it has gone the way of the Dodo too try usbclass handler before usb and try all handlers until we find something remove doc/conf and remember to install the CSS stylesheet Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal check that dellWirelessCtl exists before using it mention that dellWirelessCtl is optional clarify search paths for device information files ran 'make update-po' create entire fdi file hierarchy according to spec including /etc/hal/fdi bits Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal fix build rules for spec fix up spec generation a bit more add manual pages hint that a patch to util-linux is needed when using --enable-umount-helper improve wording in note about --enable-umount-helper enable docbook docs by default use AM_PROG_CC_C_O to avoid warning when configuring sources fix up SEE ALSO section in lshal's man page allow mount options 'acl' and 'user_xattr' for ext3 clean up locking example fix up ReleaseGlobalInterfaceLock() and improve locking example make LUKS setup/teardown respect the standard .Volume and .Storage locks make libhal locking API take 'bool exclusive' and fix a bug only acquire a lock exclusively if no-one else is holding the lock add new hal-lock(1) utility Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal fix up hal-lock manpage don't build docs by default as it breaks distcheck specify path to eject at build time clarify locking on the Volume.Crypto interface use the right interface in the example in hal-lock.1 fix IBM, Toshiba ACPI hotkey handling clarify search path for callouts, addons and method calls. remove unused variables change locking semantics a bit and add guidelines for SystemPowerManagement change locking semantics slightly and add missing locking bits avoid crash if an addon is using IsLockedByOthers() avoid polling when a drive is locked make hal-lock(1) provide an --exit-with-dev option update hal-lock(1)'s man page and fix usage() add hal-disable-polling(1) program along with a man page give back the "button" capability to keyboards update hal-info requirement to 20070328 update TODO list teach fdi.dtd about contains_not, rip out RNG scheme use UTF-8 for the generated HTML require autoconfig 2.59c or newer mention umount helper as default options to use add docs for access_control namespace reword bit of the spec fix typo document the RF killswitch namespace and interface ran 'make update-po' print docdir in configure summary update NEWS for 0.5.9 release Doug Chapman (1): fix unaligned messages (RH Bug #210079) Erik Andrén (2): add addon for backlight control on Dell computers make the amount of Dell backlight levels dynamic Frederic Crozat (1): handle system bus restarts Frederic Peters (1): use VOLUME_ID_CFLAGS Guillem Jover (2): respect --disable-pmu for hal-system-power-pmu rename nokia770 to omap Holger Macht (12): fixed typos in cpufreq addon Fix the D-Bus restart case for the CPUFreq addon. The D-Bus connection you add /sys/class/backlight/* interface support Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://homac@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal revert logic for setting and getting "consider_nice" setting throw exception if D-Bus connection of sender is NULL Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://homac@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal additional error check trigger pm-utils for hibernate, suspend and SetPowerSave on SUSE Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://homac@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal allow hibernate, suspend and CPUFreq for the root user independent of desktop-console Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://homac@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal Jean-Yves Lefort (11): fix python shebang line add FreeBSD and Solaris support implement HAL_PROPERTY_TYPE_STRLIST support in merge_device_rewrite_cb and fix some potential NULL-pointer dereferences add a osspec_privileged_init function for initializing backend objects prior to dropping root privileges add casts to fix build errors on FreeBSD break out the PCI and USB IDs initialization into two separate functions favor CAM devices over ATAPI devices correct SCSI to atapi mapping power down instead of halting the system avoid an infinite loop with buggy PCI firmware ensure that UDIs of ATA and SCSI devices are unique Joe Marcus Clarke (11): add support for FreeBSD mount options add FreeBSD support disable partutil for FreeBSD add FreeBSD support add the FreeBSD backend fix potnential crash when changing disc media fix ATA support for FreeBSD 5.X flesh out mount options for FreeBSD Merge branch 'master' of ssh://marcus@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal fix disc volume detection on FreeBSD 5.X ensure there are no embedded slashes in UDI components John (J5) Palmieri (1): use g_slist_remove_link instead of g_slist_remove Kareem Dana (1): fix probe-storage and addon-storage competing for O_EXCL on cdrom device Kay Sievers (13): fix casting to avoid compiler error rework Linux coldplug to work with future kernel changes merge Linux class and bus device handling Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal store fdi files as rules object remove left-over "class device" from debug output linux coldplug: prepare for new sysfs layout change email address rename "bus" and "physical" properties to something more abstract Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal fix scsi_host parent relationship Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal fix scsi-device-handling for devices we probe but don't add Kevin Ottens (1): add property for power save state Kristian Høgsberg (4): initialize pollfd array correctly. update ieee1394 prober to ioctl interface changes. report AV/C subunits instead of AV/C unit in ieee1394 probe. use sysfs attributes instead of parsing config rom file. Martin Pitt (7): without PolicyKit, allow only root to mount fixed disks allow 'locale=' NTFS mount option for Linux h-d-m: beautify list values output fix Omnibook LCD brightness levels fix bashism in tools/linux/hal-system-lcd-get-brightness-linux fix 'bus type' display in h-d-m fix crash because of missing return value check Matthew Garrett (1): add new battery, bluetooth, wireless key events Matthias Kretz (2): better ALSA card name reread /proc/cards to make hotplugging sound cards work Michael Biebl (5): inotify support for systems without sys/inotify.h inotify support for systems without sys/inotify.h fix section for hald man page properly use $(docdir) as_ac_removal Patrice Dumas (1): mention libhal in the docs Priit Laes (2): added Estonian translation removed translatable tag from value field of capabilties Richard Hughes (34): Make sure we get all of a multi-word battery.model value. allow build without PolicyKit allow make distcheck to work with a readonly buildroot ignore the special ACPI 'Ones' value for rate move the information scripts to hal-info move the information scripts to hal-info split the logitec csr mice detection vids-pids into hal info Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://hughsient@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal Add some information keys to the spec for hardware recalls. add prefix and suffix to the fdi attribute list add --retain-privileges so we can use massif make the acpi, apm and pmu backends inclusion configurable fix the libparted checking script only build the pmu addon when we use pmu add info about hal-info to HACKING and add dependency to NEWS change trivial %% typo in the acpi battery code move the power_management.quirk.* properties add new files to .gitignore files fix libusb detection fix pmu laptop screen on new kernels move laptop_panel.brightness_in_hardware data to hal-info make the hal suspend and hibernate scripts use the quirk command line of pm-utils remove hal-spec.html from the tarball remove bak files from git-status output remove the hal-system-video-*-linux files remove the zzz script from suspend add --quirk-radeon-off allow use of libparted 1.8.2 fix the smbios.*.* keys to be a little more sane fix acpi detection for very new kernels Fix error initialisation in acpi addon to fix ac adapter event reporting added hal-acl-tool executable to .gitignore add support for the macbook backlight add libparted v1.8.6 to configure Rob Taylor (15): Make haldaemon and haluser vaiables in hal.pc Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal Remove linux.sysfs_path_device key Remove checking for run-time usb.ids and pci.ids at build time Make hotplugging non-recursive. Merge branch 'master' into to-push Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal Add back autodetection of usb.ids and pci.ids when not specified. Merge branch 'to-push' Fix compile warning on PPC. Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal ignore *.py[oc] and *.gcno add option to build without libpci add compare_ne to possible matchrules Move COMPARE_NE to end of match_type enum. S.Çağlar Onur (3): get ARPHRD_IEEE80211_RADIOTAP and similar from kernel, not glibc headers patch corrects some typos in tr.po and addon-cpufreq.c add pm-suspend to linux/hal-system-power-suspend-linux Sergey Lapin (9): fix for crash in hald_dbus.c use mallopt since we mostly allocate small chunks reduce memory fragmentation by using POSIX readlink rather than glib add Nokia 770 backlight addon use POSIX readdir instead of g_dir_open add file for Nokia 770 backlight move fdi file parsing into a separate process Returned back unit test executable. Fixed distcheck problem Sjoerd Simons (9): Always set power_management.can_suspend to true if the power_management.type is Let probe-smbios only return successfully if it actually got something Set system.formfactor fallback in exactly one place instead of three and be Read out model and compatible property out of openfirmware if possible. And use the openfirmware module property to decide what formfactor the system has. Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal * Fix some code-style issues that David commented on Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal prevent hald-runner from printing unnecessary warning messages work around cdrom devices giving invalid TOC info Steven Walter (1): Add match for Creative Zen Nano USB music player Thomas Petazzoni (1): fix python example to work with a recent dbus Timo Hoenig (1): don't call dbus_connection_close() for some of our tools Tomasz Torcz (3): Add Z31t to the list of laptops needing laptop_panel.brightness_in_hardware Add ThinkPad T60 to the list of laptops needing laptop_panel.brightness_in_hardware Add ThinkPad X60 and X60s to the list of laptops needing William Jon McCann (6): build fixes two build fixes sizing fixes for device manager improve api docs fix api docs even more hal updates for latest ConsoleKit ========== HAL 0.5.8 "The Skynet Funding Bill is passed." ========== Released September 11, 2006 Contributors to this release Artem Kachitchkine: check for getgrouplist() and use the local version if not provided by the use AM_CFLAGS instead of CFLAGS *** empty log message *** * configure.in: don't PKG_CHECK volume_id on Solaris share is_mounted_by_hald() and non-gcc nits CloseTray() method (eject -t) Dan Nicholson: corrects the location of the hal scripts directory Dan Williams: Added ROKR e2 to USB Music Players Danny Kukawka: fixed spec for portable_audio_player namespace properties which not use fixed to be sure that the prober is only called for ttyS* devices. Only Added several USB mp3 player to fdi file: applied patches and added new devices from fd.o bugs: 6101, 6139, fixed remaining_time property, remove the key if battery is charging applied slightly adopted patch and added new device from fd.o bugs: added new translation file for Khmer from SUSE/Novell translation team Added Khmer translation to ALL_LINGUAS Applied slightly adopted patches from fd.o bugs 6317, 6462, 6464, 6561. Moved hal scripts to $(libdir)/hal/scripts instead of Skip stat nfs mounts. This should solve blocked hald (and failing added property for DVD+RW DL to spec fixed problem with parse information from output of dmidecode where the Added support for --use-syslog option to prober and addons. This should Added new mp3-player from fd.o bug #6646 removed unneeded code and validate the returned string directly. replaced fprintf () with dbg () cleanup: s/;;/;/ removed (again) unneeded code and validate the returned string directly. Fixed path to the helper of the related backends, added several messages as Added check for bash syntax in scipts to the new backend dirs. Fixed mapping of system.formfactor from smbios.chassis.type. Added a check removed net.interface_up property because we never refresh the value, since set pointer adress to NULL after free() set volume.block_size for blank CD/DVD to 0 to avoid stange values for Fixed libhal_volume_get_size to return volume.size if available instead of Added checks if vbetool is available and executable in /usr/sbin/, added Patch from to fix fd.o bug #7029 and correct Added slightly adopted patch from Bob Copeland to add fix configure and remove no longer available volume_id/Makefile from Fixed build hal-spec.html to avoid invalid chars in the html page and *** empty log message *** fixed compiler warning about incompatible pointer types fixed building of hal-spec.html Removed Doxygen related files because hal does no longer use Close memory leaks from not freed DBusError in libhal and libhal-storage Close memory leaks from not freed DBusError in tools src dir Fixed possible crash in hal_util_get_normalized_path () fixed compiler warnings and added doc/api/tmpl/.gitignore Export hal user and group in pkg-config file fixed several compiler warnings (warn_unused_result and format stuff) set proc title for acpi/hid-ups/usb-csr addons replaced LIBHAL_FREE_DBUS_ERROR with dbus_error_free() fixed build of HAL cleanup includes in hald/linux2/* add more scsi.type mapping and add property info to spec reduce useless changes on APM battery.remaining_time remove shared.h for addons/prober and some little fixes fix overseen left dbg() calls in probe-{storage,volume}.c move hald/linux2 to hald/linux and renamed backend fixed make for hald/linux/addons add support for attribute 'empty' for strlist to tag add property alsa.device_pcm_classi Added Panasonic SV-MP31V to USB Music Players added detection of a SDC Card reader performance patch to speed up mapping of pnp_ids to description replaced LIBHAL_FREE_DBUS_ERROR with dbus_error_free() removed not needed dir from repository fixed usage of unchecked returnval from hal_util_strdup_valid_utf8 change detection of wireless, add net.irda and net.80211control David Zeuthen: add cryptsetup-luks dep Post-release version bump to 0.5.8 Fix for /usr/sbin/pm-powersave for Fedora pm-utils 0.10-1 New file Convert doc comments from Doxygen to gtk-doc New file Add back typedefs for LibHalPropertySetIterator and LibHalContext as they New directory Write requirements for HAL 0.5.8 (and CVS HEAD) Add build rules for hal-policy-is-privileged Generate policy/Makefile and policy/txt/Makefile policy/txt/power-hibernate.policy (Allow), forgot reboot Use new policy framework to enforce policy. Always throw the same exception New file Add entry for my wireless mouse+keyboard combo Move libhal-policy to a dedicated package PolicyKit (available in HAL CVS). Remove libhal-policy bits Patch from Gabriel Burt . Add some useful keys for Patch from Christian Neumair . Use new suffix .privilege instead of .policy and prefix privilege files s/--policy/--privilege/ and s/--uid/--user/ Fix for RH bug #185557 Patch from Gabriel Burt . Update to new PolicyKit API. Patch from Joe Marcus Clarke . Move sockets to This patch fixes endian-ness issues with the input device support of hal, In Ubuntu we got several bug reports about device label gibberish, for Don't stat autofs mounts. Patch from John (J5) Palmieri . Export a new environment variable with the unique name for callers system Patch from Joe Marcus Clarke and Danny Kukawka Be explicit about DIST_SUBDIRS as otherwise 'make distcheck' breaks. Set capability volume.disc as required by the spec. Patch from Kevin Ottens Add introspection support to hald. Adds code so addons can claim interfaces and handle the methods on them in Check properly for libpci. Patch from Frederic Peters . Handle LABEL= and UUID= in this function. (handle_mount): Also allow uid= git stuff, mount/umount/eject all in C, .hal-mtab usage, light_sensor (forgot to pass -a the first time) git stuff, mount/umount/eject all Forgot to tweak tools/[linux/,freebsd/,]Makefile.am and remove old files. Remove unused stuff. Remove more unused stuff. Remove examples from SUBDIRS; there is no examples/Makefile anymore. Remove unused .fdi files. Fix up LUKS stuff by using new kernel feature in Linux 2.6.17. Change license of hald/linux2/blockdev.c to GPL only as I just update HACKING file to mention git and commit format add *~ to all .gitignore files for emacs users clarify how to get a diff between your local repo and the master repo introduce new option --disable-policy-kit and streamline the build add properties required by a hypothetical disk utility and some bug fixes fix device mapper block device handling as last commit broke this add script examples/watch-mount-state.sh for monitoring key state files update TODO list so it fits in with reality add notes about new power saving mechanisms we should add make a note of runtime power management in the TODO list add note to doc/TODO about making Mount support option 'remount' add note to doc/TODO about the o.fd.Hal.Device.VideoAdapterPM properties add some more notes to doc/TODO fix up device mapper device handling use a more robust way of detecting partitions and fix block.is_volume sleep before looking for slaves/ in sysfs for device mapper fix removal of fakevolume objects and remove special handling for ide-cs actually remove the ide-cs special handling code add API to hald (and libhal) to change multiple properties at once free dbus error freeing in lshal fix up how we handle non-partitioned volumes introduce some new properties for MS-DOS partition tables fix uninitialized pc->merge_type fix up hal interface claiming in cpufreq addon make cpufreq addon use standard D-Bus expections for unknown methods add new partition probing code and adapt hal code to use it make addon-hip-ups use LibHalChangeSet require addons to call libhal_device_addon_is_ready() to make device visible make Mount() support option remount fix some compiler warnings fixup libparted detection Frederic Crozat: add support for Mandriva's tools for suspend and hibernate Gabriel Burt: Clarify what portable_audio_player.folder_depth means. Holger Macht: add cpu frequency scaling support to hal Joe Marcus Clarke: Split out the tools scripts into an OS-independent wrapper, and an Add scripts to EXTRA_DIST Remove a script which is only found in the OS-independent section. Spotted Rename hal-luks-remove.in-linux to hal-luks-remove-linux.in to preserve the Julien Sobrier: add Archos Gmini 400 to USB Music Players Julio M. Merino Vidal: make libhal link against libintl for NetBSD (bug #6471) do not use GNU specific == operator in calls to test(1) (bug 6467) Kai Willadsen: add Samsung U2Z to USB Music Players Kay Sievers: Add squashfs detection. Add printer command set returned by 1284 query. "Each key will have at Read name of cpu from /proc/cpuinfo. Some day we will have this in sysfs, Add "COMMANDSET:" to the printer query parsing. getline() expects size_t; fix alignment warning fix typo Prepare for new class devices showing up in /sys/devices instead of Depend on external shared version of libvolume_id. If HAL finds already created partitions, it will not longer probe for a Remove internal copy of libvolume_id. remove left over file from volume_id Increase HAL_PATH_MAX from 256 to 512. Remove dead code. remove dead files after dead code removal Replace dbus_connection_disconnect() with dbus_connection_close() (D-BUS Fix requirements. The 'hotplug multiplexer' is gone long time ago. .cvsignore -> .gitignore add .o files to .gitignore ISO-8859-1 -> UTF-8 Kevin Ottens: correct the introspection to list all objects Lennart Poettering: added some USB card reader from fd.o bug #7749 Mark McLoughlin: add support for Xen devices Michael Burns: fix ACPI acpid/proc configure options Patrick Cherry: add Samsung YP-Z5 to USB Music Players Richard: Add some more temp files to the .gitignore files. Correct the error name, obviously a copy/paste error that's lived undetected in CVS for years. Check for the new suspend2 sysfs location. Advised by Nigel Cunningham, many thanks. Richard Hughes: Fix build by including the new policy directory in the tarball, and by Convert the key names to include a central dash between words, e.g. Build hald-addon-acpi-buttons-toshiba. When the acpi->input patches get Append hald-addon-acpi-buttons-toshiba Ammend the spec as now button.has_state and button.type are not mandatory. Patch from Paolo Borelli . Refresh device types button, battery and ac_adapter on resume, as a suspend Added new Logitech csr mice, mainly from Bastien Nocera for fd.o 6397. Also Add --print-reply to dbus-send else the Rescan does not work. This should Update the patch from http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6397 as Patch from Bastien Nocera : Patch from Bastien Nocera : Patch from Bastien Nocera : * hald/linux2/osspec.c: (set_suspend_hibernate_keys): Depreciate the keys * doc/spec/hal-spec.html: * doc/spec/hal-spec.xml.in: * Add org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel.GetBrightness and Rework a patch from Joe Marcus Clarke to fix a typo in On some laptops, the brightness control is all done in hardware but the Change the docbook2html check in the configure script to check for xmlto. Re-add --print-reply to dbus-send else the Rescan does not work. This fixes Add the video_adapter_pm namespace key descriptions for video power Only allow org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.VideoAdapterPM to be used by root. This adds a css style file to the generated html file. It makes the tables Add the video adapter suspend and resume functionality so we can just drop Update these with the new files to keep cvs diff happy. As found in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345257 the hal add spawn to dtd so make distcheck works Add more files to .gitignore properly convert mAh to mWh rather than uWh modify battery.technology to one of a few present values fix message when we try to set a brightness above range fix the maximum brightness level for pmu hardware S.Çağlar Onur: added Turkish translations Sjoerd Simons: Also recognize mute, volume up/down buttons, switchvideo mode button and Add Catalan translation hald-runner/runner.c: Close the stderr filedescriptor after reading it to hald/linux/blockdev.c: Don't print things we don't have the arguments for. In Requirements for HAL 0.5.8 "The Skynet Funding Bill is passed." - Linux kernel >= 2.6.17 - util-linux >= 2.12r1 - bash >= 2.0 - udev >= 082 - dbus >= 0.60 (with glib bindings) - glib >= 2.6.0 - expat >= 1.95.8 - libusb >= 0.1.10a (optional) - pciutils >= 2.2.3 (optional - dmidecode >= 2.7 (optional) - parted == 1.7.1 (optional) - cryptsetup-luks >= 1.0.1 (optional, needs LUKS patches) ========== HAL 0.5.7 "Dead as Dillinger." ========== Released February 24, 2006 - Fix spelling error for UnknowFailure in eject method (David Zeuthen) - Kill subfs support in mount scripts (Kay Sievers) - Privilege separation mega patch (Sjoerd Simons) - Allow ejection of audio and blank discs (John Palmieri, David Zeuthen) - Fix QueryCapability (Kevin Ottens) - Disc capacity, fdo #2233 (William Jon McCann) - Remove fstab-sync and related things (David Zeuthen) - Remove volume.policy.* and storage.policy.* properties (David Zeuthen) - Remove hotplug helper and use a udev rule instead (Kay Sievers) - Remove old code for pcmcia fstab files (David Zeuthen) - Add HP_RECOVERY to black-list of volumes to ignore (David Zeuthen) - Remove drive_id and use udev data on coldplug (Kay Sievers) - Switch eject detection to SG_IO interface, Novell #145147 (Kay Sievers) - Start scripts in the directory they exist in (David Zeuthen) - Don't use card id in ALSA and OSS UDI's (Jürg Billeter) - Laptop panel objects and fixes (Richard Hughes) - Pseudo bus for scsi_debug support (Kay Sievers) - Samsung YP-U1 music player fdi file (Andrew Smith) - Listen on appropriate input devices and generate appropriate ButtonPressed events (Matthew Garrett) - Export Mount, Unmount, Eject on drives we cannot poll (David Zeuthen) - Only allow uid 0 and uid who mounted a volume to unmount it (David Zeuthen) - Use hal's Unmount() for surprise removal (David Zeuthen) - Make HAL cleanup mountpoints created by Mount() even if it was unmounted by e.g. umount(1) (David Zeuthen) - Allow spaces and UTF-8 in mount points (Jeffrey Stedfast, David Zeuthen) - Fix UTF-8 validation of filesystem labels (David Zeuthen) - Add Teardown to the Device.Volume.Crypto interface (David Zeuthen) - Fix problems with dbus_error (Danny Kukawka) - fix mapping system.formfactor from smbios (Danny Kukawka) - Make StringListRemove actually work (David Zeuthen) - Serialize method calls and don't crash if the device object went away while methods were enqueued (David Zeuthen) - Refuse to Mount() volumes listed in /etc/fstab (Ludwig Nussel) - Fix get_uuid() and get_fsversion() in libhal-storage (David Zeuthen) - Don't do initgroups (Martin Pitt) - Fix libhal-storage memory leaks (David Zeuthen, reported by Brendan Creane) - Tear down crypto links on surprise removal (David Zeuthen) - Sync volume_id with udev version (Kay Sievers) - Add two functions crypto_get_clear_volume_udi and crypto_get_backing_volume_udi to libhal-storage (David Zeuthen) - More privilege dropping (Martin Pitt) - Add Blu-ray and HD DVD to code and spec (Artem Kachitchkine) - Use blocking mode for PMU (Sjoerd Simons) - Use a safe PATH in hald by default (Sjoerd Simons) Requirements for HAL 0.5.7 "Dead as Dillinger." - Linux kernel >= 2.6.15 - util-linux >= 2.13 - bash >= 2.0 - udev >= 078 (using udevsend as hotplug multiplexer) - dbus >= 0.60 (with glib bindings) - glib >= 2.6.0 - expat >= 1.95.8 - libusb >= 0.1.10a (optional) - dmidecode >= 2.7 (optional) - cryptsetup-luks => 1.0.1 (optional, needs LUKS patches) ========== HAL 0.5.6 "Leave the gun. Take the cannoli." ========== Released January 16, 2006 - new volume_id from udev upstream (Kay Sievers) - listen to udev via a socket (Kay Sievers) - Another USB card reader common theme (Pozsar Balazs) - volume_id version 55 to fix strange FAT detection issues (Kay Sievers) - Sony Ericsson mobile phones with Memory Stick (Pro Duo) fdi (Danny Kukawka) - Samsung Yepp YP-ST5 fdi (Davide Ferrari) - Use hash table for calculated charge rate (Danny Kukawka) - Add checks to power management scripts (Danny Kukawka) - Move scripts to $(datadir)/hal/scripts (Danny Kukawka) - Fix for refreshing battery values on AC adapter transition (Richard Hughes) - Add power_management.[can_suspend,can_hibernate] and remove the power_management.is_enabled keys (Richard Hughes) - Use the new poll-able /proc/mounts file from 2.6.15 (Kay Sievers) - Allow strlists to be passed to method calls (Kay Sievers) - Add Mount, Unmount, Eject methods to the new org.freedesktop.Hal.Device. Volume interface (Kay Sievers) - Update driver prop on physical device if class device binds (Kay Sievers) - Force 'rate' to be zero if battery is neither charging nor discharging (Ryan Lortie) - Fix our DTD file and add validation for fdi files (Artem Kachitchkine) - Add Shutdown() and Reboot() methods (Richard Hughes) - Add HAL_METHOD_INVOKED_BY_UID to method call environment (Kay Sievers) - Switch from xattr to .create-by-hal-file at mount point to determine if a mount point is created by HAL's Mount() method (Kay Sievers) - Remove HAL-created mount points at startup (Kay Sievers) - SCSI generic device recognizition (Kay Sievers) - Restrict org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume to the console user (Kay Sievers) - Set drive_type to 'disk' for new TYPE_RBC (Firewire) devices (Danny Kukawka) - Added TEAC CD-R55S to list of broken CD/DVD burner (Danny Kukawka) - Move uid_export to root scope to avoid corruption (Aaron Bockover) - Introduce volume.mount.valid_options and generalize mount script (David Zeuthen) - Remove dead code in lshal (Danny Kukawka) - Add neeeded NULL termination of an array (Chris Spiegel, fd.o #5279) - Also let uid 0 invoke methods restricted to console user (Richard Hughes) - Fix more vulnerabilities in script for Mount(), Unmount(), Eject() (Kay Sievers, David Zeuthen) - Add battery.reporting.* to UPS'es (David Zeuthen) - Fixup a few compiler warnings (Danny Kukawka) - UK translations (Ivan Petrouchtchak) - V4L and DVB device recognizition (Kay Sievers) - Match on info.capabilities, not info.category (John Palmieri) - Sony PSP music player fdi file (James Henstridge, fd.o #5137) - Fix incorrect reporting of volume.fsuage in libhal-storage (David Zeuthen) - Introduce volume.ignore property, document it, make it available in libhal-storage and make our Mount() script respect it (David Zeuthen) - Add optical disc write speeds (Ryan Lortie, Danny Kukuwka) - Use D-BUS calls for powersaved backend (Holger Macht) Requirements for HAL 0.5.6 "Leave the gun. Take the cannoli." - Linux kernel >= 2.6.15 - util-linux >= 2.13 - bash >= 2.0 - udev >= 078 (using udevsend as hotplug multiplexer) - dbus >= 0.60 (with glib bindings) - glib >= 2.6.0 - expat >= 1.95.8 - popt >= 1.10.2 (optional) - libusb >= 0.1.10a (optional) - dmidecode >= 2.7 (optional) ========== HAL 0.5.5.1 ========== Released November 14, 2005 - Fix a few division by zero bugs (Danny Kukawka) ========== HAL 0.5.5 "I want you to see what he's got under his fingernails." ========== Released November 14, 2005 - Handle invalid UTF-8 from serial numbers of storage devices (Danny Kukawka) - Try reconnect to acpid (Danny Kukawka) - Calculate rate when not reported (Søren Hansen, Danny Kukawka) - fd.o bugs #4871, #2850, #2121, #3954, #4266, #4644, #2115, #3036(Danny Kukawka, Others) - Major rework of lshal (Pierre Ossman) - Comment out multi-session query for optical discs (Kay Sievers) - Update to from AFL 2.0 to AFL 2.1 (David Zeuthen) - Prepare for 2.6.15 compatibility (Kay Sievers) - Update spec some (Danny Kukawka) - Card reader .fdi files (Jerome Lodewyck) - Look at all netlink messages, not just the first one (Jon Nettleton) - Add --version to hald (Danny Kukawka) - Add some hack to work around broken and racy /proc/mounts (Danny Kukawka) - Add option for using the syslog (Danny Kukawka) - Support 'EjectPressed' condition for optical drives (Kay Sievers) - More checks for if a system is a laptop (Danny Kukawka, Richard Hughes) - Update list of PNP ID's (Danny Kukawka) - Update to volume_id version 52 (Kay Sievers) - Remove non-polling blacklist entry for HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD-ROM GCC-4240N since this works on Linux 2.6.13 (Danny Kukawka) - Handle non-existing add-ons (Danny Kukawka) - Deal with acpid restarts (Ryan Lortie) - Fix fstab-sync parsing (Pascal Terjan) - Work with newer dmidecode (Richard Hughes) - Some serial port support and MMC storage fixes (Pierre Ossman) - Fix build by not using kernel-style data types (Martin Pitt) - Suspend/hibernate functionality for distros without tools (Richard Hughes) - Workaround for some buggy ACPI implementations (Ryan Lortie) - SetBrightness and GetBrightness methods (Richard Hughes) - Various S390 device handling fixes (Cornelia Huck) Requirements for HAL 0.5.5 "I want you to see what he's got under his fingernails." - Linux 2.6.13 or later - udev 071 or later (using udevsend as hotplug multiplexer) - dbus 0.50 or later (with glib bindings) - glib 2.6 or later - expat - popt (optional) - libusb (optional) - dmidecode (optional) ========== HAL 0.5.4 "Never tell anybody outside the family what you're thinking again." ========== Released August 26, 2005 - Fixes to build on Solaris (Alvaro Lopez Ortega) - Detect DVD+R Dual Layer (Danny Kukawka) - Fix hal-device-manager (John 'J5' Palmieri) - Methods on hal device objects (David Zeuthen) - LUKS integration (W. Michael Petullo) - Add defensive measures to libhal to avoid potential segfaults (Danny Kukawka) - Add extra ACPI information (Danny Kukawka) - Fix volume.disc.is_rewriteable for DVD+R/DVD+R DL (Danny Kukawka) - Add new features to hal-set-property (W. Michael Petullo) - Fixup percentage computation for batteries (Richard Hughes) - Updated translations (Novell/SUSE translation team) - Update all GPL license headers to FSF's new address (Danny Kukawka) - Use consistent battery charge units (Ryan 'desrt' Lortie) - Various battery-related fixes (Richard Hughes, Danny Kukawka) - ALSA/OSS fixes (Danny Kukawka) - Tape device fixes for S390 (Cornelia Huck) - Export correct volume.fsuage from libhal-storage (David Zeuthen) - Introduce battery.reporting properties (Richard Hughes, Danny Kukawka) - Sync up to latest volume_id from udev (Kay Sievers) - Introduce system-wide power management scripts (David Zeuthen) - Fix how HAL detects PDA's (Danny Kukawka) - Fix misc audio player stuff (Pierre Ossman) - Integration for SUSE powersave (Danny Kukawka) - Export mmc_host capability (Pierre Ossman) - Bump timeout on detection time (Cornelia Huck) - Detect joysticks (Danny Kukawka) - Fix symbol visiblity with gcov (Cornelia Huck) - Stop sending invalid UTF-8 characters from volume labels (Danny Kukawka) - Handle non-existing callouts in a graceful manner (Kay Sievers) - Various cleanups and fixes (Richard Hughes, Danny Kukawka) ========== HAL 0.5.3 "I didn't ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business." ========== Released July 12, 2005 - hal-find-by-capability and hal-find-by-property tools (David Zeuthen) - Fix some of the bugs from johnp's port of h-d-m (David Zeuthen, Kay Sievers) - Trigger rescan of ACPI objects when receiving events (Richard Hughes) - Fix key for storage.cdrom.dvdram (Danny Kukawka) - Don't use sync as part of the normal mount option policy (David Zeuthen) - Update fstab-sync man page (David Zeuthen) - Fix a bug in hal_property_new_string (Martin Pitt) - Fix --help output (Danny Kukawka) - Detect DVD+R DL media (William Jon McCann, David Zeuthen) - Add empty Solaris backend and fix build for Solaris (Alvaro Lopez Ortega) - Support various S390 devices (Cornelia Huck) - Prepare hald to work with newer udev versions (Kay Sievers) - Unify various error handling functions (Steffen Winterfeldt) - Add infrastructure + tools to populate the hal db (Steffen Winterfeldt) - Fixup MMC storage cards drive type on MMC bus (Pierre Ossman) - Handle case where the battery life is degrading (Richard Hughes) - Make libhal_ctx_init() fail if hald is not running (David Zeuthen) - New translations: nb (Kjartan Maraas), es (Francisco Javier F. Serrador) ========== HAL 0.5.2 "Can't do it, Sally." ========== Released May 12, 2005 - Calculate remaining time for batteries (Richard Hughes) - libhal documentation update (Rohan McGovern) - Tweak default policy to automount 'mmc' devices (Pierre Ossman) - PMU lid button and battery polling fixes (David Zeuthen) - Detect PTP cameras (Pozsar Balazs) - Include script to generate libgphoto2 .fdi file (Pozsar Balazs) - Unmount by mount point instead of by device file (Rohan McGovern) ========== HAL 0.5.1 "Sonny...?" ========== Released Apr 27, 2005 - Teach volume_id about Minix and a bunch of ATA raid signatures and use last label on multi-session discs (Kay Sievers) - Extract certain stuff using dmidecode and populate smbios.* properties and populate some newer computer.* properties - Change sesame to luks (W. Michael Petullo) - Cope with double hotplug events and other boundary conditions wrt. hotplug events (Kay Sievers) - Add some more USB2 card reader .fdi files - Make hal know about Firewire devices yet again - Export info.linux.driver for every physical device - Match PalmOS style pda's (Andrei Yurkevich) - zh_TW translation (chaoweilun@pcmail.com.tw) - Use direct d-bus connection for helpers instead of routing the traffic through the system bus - Several memory leak fixes - Update h-d-m to use Python bindings in D-BUS 0.33 or later - Use new udev feature to read all device file names in one go - Various fixes (Richard Hughes, Steve Grubb, Kay Sivers, Murray Cumming, Martin Pitt, Bill Nottingham) Requirements for HAL 0.5.1 "Sonny...?" - Linux 2.6.11 or later - udev 057 or later (using udevsend as hotplug multiplexer) - dbus 0.33 or later (with glib bindings) - glib 2.6 or later - expat - popt (optional) - libusb (optional) ========== HAL 0.5.0 "The family had a lot of buffers." ========== Released Mar 7, 2005 - Completely rewritten backend code including splitting work that requires privileges into separate processes - HAL daemon should be more restitant to broken kernel drivers thanks to the split into multiple processes - Test suite - New features - String list property type - New device information file features - ACPI/PMU/APM/hiddev UPS abstractions - Not backwards compatible since D-BUS broke ABI (porting effort is minimal though) - Updated list of TODO items providing a roadmap Requires - Linux 2.6.10 or later built with hotplug and uevents - udev 050 or later with /sbin/udevsend as the hotplug helper/multiplexor - D-BUS 0.31 or later including glib and (optionally) Python bindings - glib2 2.4 or later ======================================================================== Branched sometime after 0.4.2 - all 0.4.x release are now on the branch called hal-0_4-stable-branch in CVS. ========== HAL 0.4.2 "Something like that. Tastes the same anyway." ========== Released Dec 1, 2004 - Add blacklist for not polling certain IDE slave drives as that decreases performance - Support for Linux kernels 2.6.10-rc2 and onwards - Only lazy unmount devices if {storage.volume}.policy.should_mount is TRUE - e.g. don't lazy unmount devices we don't care about - Support for IDE Zip and Jaz drives (treated as floppy drives) - Various fdi-parsing enhancements - Don't add 'ro' to optical drives as it prevents DVD-RAM usage - Support 256 partitions instead of only 16 - small h-d-m UI bugfix (Sjoerd Simons) - small h-d-m UI bugfix (Bryan Clark) ========== HAL 0.4.1 "What's that? Chicken?" ========== Released Nov 2, 2004 - Make $(binpath)/hal-device-manager a real executable instead of a symlink to better work with strict SELinux (Colin Walters) - Change default storage policy such that SCSI optical drives are being added to e.g. /etc/fstab - Refine PCMCIA socket location to better work with strict SELinux (from Dan Walsh) - Make configure.in require libcap development headers (Tim Müller) - Change default storage policy to not add fixed non-hotpluggable disks to e.g. /etc/fstab (as ATARAID detection is not yet complete) - Support PCMCIA 16-bit network devices (Dan Williams) - Change default storage policy to use 'auto' for filesystem instead of 'udf,iso9660' - Probe ext3 filesystems before NTFS filesystems - Highpoint ATARAID detection (Kay Sievers) - Fixup detection of Orinico 802.11 devices (Dan Williams) - Portuguese translations (Pedro Morais) - Hungarian translations (Laszlo Dvornik) - Russian translations (Leonid Kanter) - Clarify fstab-sync man page - Fix crash in fstab-sync when no options are given - Change default storage policy to allow legacy floppy disks - Fixup order of mount options in libhal-storage as mount depend on that - Handle missing hotplug events - Change default storage policy to not never use UUID - Don't use O_NONBLOCK in volume_id when reading data block devices - fix fstab-sync clean ========== HAL 0.4.0 "It's origin and purpose, still a total mystery" ========== Released Oct 17, 2004 - Use pamconsole mount option instead of user (David Zeuthen) - Remove fstab-sync configure options (David Zeuthen) - Unchecked buffer access fix in pci device detection (Martin Pitt) - Allow hal euid to AddProperty and other operations (Sjoerd Simons) - Fix netlink packets interceptor such that only packages from the kernel is processed - security fix (Steve Grubb) - Device information file parser fixes (David Zeuthen) - fstab-sync manual page (David Zeuthen) - Make fstab-sync use storage policy properties (David Zeuthen) - libhal-storage C glue to access new storage policy (David Zeuthen) - RemoveProperty requires privileged user (David Zeuthen) - Add prop to computer obj saying if selinux is enabled (David Zeuthen) - Lots of new .fdi-file parser feature (David Zeuthen) - Define new storage policy properties (David Zeuthen) - Check that legacy floppy drive actually exists (From Bill Nottingham) - Fixup {pci, usb} fd leaks (Sjoerd Simons) - Look for BLKGETSIZE64 in configure.in (Jonathan Blandford) - Handle initial hotplug events more graceful (David Zeuthen) - Checks for sysfs path and unprivileged execution fixes (Martin Pitt) - libhal fix for hal_get_all_devices (Colin Walters) - vfat fs detection as the first thing (Martin Pitt) - Fixup cdrom polling to be more safe (From Alexander Larsson) - Detect USB floppy drive by looking at USB if class (David Zeuthen) - Make fstab-sync use msdos partition id whitelist (David Zeuthen) - Dutch libhal-storage translations (Reinout van Schouwen) - Debian support for hal_hotplug_map (Sjoerd Simons) - Require superuser for SetProperty and AddCapability (David Zeuthen) - libhal shutdown 'fix' (David Zeuthen) - SATA disk checking (From Alan Cox) - Fix end-of-marker and FAT UUID conversion (Kay Sievers) - storage.icon.drive, storage.icon.volume properties (David Zeuthen) - storage.require_eject property (David Zeuthen) - French libhal-storage translations (Jérôme Lodewyck) - LVM2/RAID detection fixes (Kay Sievers) - New libhal-storage library and i18n support (David Zeuthen) - Partition id fixes (Kay Sievers) - Unchecked buffer access fix in cdrom speed detection (Martin Pitt) - USB serial device support (Kay Sievers) - volume_id logging glue (Kay Sievers) ========== HAL 0.2.98 ========== Released Sep 20, 2004 - UUID for NTFS partitions (Kay Sievers) - Fixup --with-pid-file (Tim Gerla) - Volume ID fix for FAT32 label (Kay Sievers) - volume.num_blocks, volume.block_szie - Fix dev,suid security issue with fstab-sync - Use async,noatime for removable or hotpluggable drives smaller than 2 GB in fstab-sync - Symlink device node checks in fstab-sync - Build fixes (Steve Grubb) - Reiser and swap versions - Require .hal extension for callouts - Introduce HALD_VERBOSE that works even if hal is not built with verbose mode. Make logging output nicer with timestamps - Rewrite of device detection code - huge performance wins - Make fstab-sync write to syslog when modifying fstab file - Invoke fstab-sync --clean on hald startup - Export HALD_VERBOSE to callouts - Volume id fixes (Sjoerd Simons) - Fixup symlink resolving in fstab-sync - fstab-sync name computation fixes - Add --enable-fstab-sync configure option - Add info.udi to computer hal device object - RAID probing in volume id (Kay Sievers) - Introduce new callout hal-hotplug-map to look at gphoto2 and libsane usermaps on Linux and tag devices accordingly - Fixup debug - fstab-sync doesn't require storage device on remove - Introduce volume.fsusage and use it in fstab-sync (Kay Sievers) - Don't check for a C++ compiler (Joe Shaw) - Add kernel.* properties to computer (Joe Shaw) - Fix libsysfs memory leak (Steve Grubb) - LVM probing and RAID version numbers in volume id (Kay Sievers) - Callout / Race condition fixes - Set priorities on hal.dev and hal.hotplug helpers so we run before linux-hotplug etc. - SELinux support for fstab-sync - Timeout fixes in hal.hotplug (Kay Sievers) - Respect the /sys/block//removable file - Don't remove mount point entries for devices that are mounted with fstab-sync --clean - 64-bit unsigned integer properties (Jon Lech Johansen) - boolean property fixes (Joe Shaw) - Intercept unchecked ioctl's (Martin Pitt) - Introduce --drop-privileges (Martin Pitt) - Only add -lexpat for hald (Sjoerd Simons) - Ignore duplicate hotplug events - Volume ID vfat fixes on BE boxes (Sjoerd Simons) - Fixup hald.conf.in as I broke it earlier - Force initial poll even if drive is not removable - Fixup HFS+ volume id (Kay Sievers) - Multimedia device support (Kay Sievers) - Use 64-bit sequence numbers and use textual action (Kay Sievers) - HFS+ UUID fixes (Kay Sievers) - Support network device renaming - Rename networking properties to net.80203 and net.80211 - Make hald write the pid file, not the init script (Steve Grubb) - Fix endless loop for broken FAT32 volumes in volume id (Kay Sievers) - Add advisory locking on devices (Joe Shaw) - SELinux fixes for fstab-sync (Dan Walsh) - Fixup volume.is_rewritable for some broken drives (Alexander Larsson) - Fix FD leak (Sjoerd Simons) - Update spec to catch up with code - Add volume.partition.* properties ========== HAL 0.2.97 ========== Released Aug 16, 2004 - fstab-sync: lock around the entire process (seems to work very well now) - use local sockets for communication between hotplug.d/dev.d helpers and hald (fixes d-bus limit issues) - reorder hotplug messages (fixes issues with hotplugging 20 usb devices at the same time (using a hub)) - don't process next hotplug message before device from current message is fully processed and in GDL (fixes issues with usb devices needing firmware uploads and thus will hotplug rem to hotplug add as a new device) - turn off media detection for drives being driven by the ide-cs driver - don't use drive_id or volume_id on drives with media detection turned off (fixes infinite hotplug loop with e.g. ide-cs drives) ========== HAL 0.2.96 ========== Released Aug 12, 2004 - dist HACKING (Joe Shaw) - fix missing detection of optical disc when starting - enhanced hfs/hfsplus detection (Kay Sievers) - make libhal work with c++ - validate incoming strings as UTF-8 (Joe Shaw) - try to reconnect to system bus if disconnected (Joe Shaw) - ethernet link status fixes (Dan Williams) - read vital product data from drives (Kay Sievers) - block device UDI computation enhancements - only return RESULT_HANDLED in libhal if we really handle the message - fix small memory leaks in libhal (Dan Williams) - spec now matches code - remove info.virtual concept - make USB interfaces a first class device object - fstab-sync no longer needs a wrapper (Ray Strode) - handle removable media without partition tables - fstab-sync: add entries for floppy/optical drives - fstab-sync: don't add entries if device is listed with LABEL= ========== HAL 0.2.95 ========== Released July 22, 2004 - Faster hotplugging; fork hack - Moved spec to hal module - Actually build Doxygen docs for libhal - Computer found in city of lost devices (Joe Shaw) - Experimental shutdown on SIGTERM - Use O_EXCL for optical disc detection - TODO update - libsysfs upgrade to 1.1 (Kay Sievers, Joe Shaw) ========== HAL 0.2.94 ========== Released July 15, 2004 - SCSI device detection fixes (Sjoerd Simons) - fstab-sync callout in C (Ray Strode) - hal-device-manager GTK+ error dialog (Sjoerd Simons) - Volume Label fixes (Kay Sievers) - Storage device detection and fixes (David Zeuthen, Sjoerd Simons) - No media detection for devices using floppy drivers, e.g. LS120 (davidz) - HAL commandline tool interface cleanups (Martin Waitz) ========== HAL 0.2.93 ========== Released July 5, 2004 - Volume probing and label additions fixes (Kay Sievers) - hal.dev doesn't slow down udevstart or udev anymore (David Zeuthen) http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-July/msg00261.html - Volume mount detection fixes (David Zeuthen, pointed out by Sjoerd Simons) - Persistent device store (still disabled) (Kay Sievers) - Fix of 802.3 link detection (Dan Williams) - Removal of wireless scanning (Joe Shaw, Robert Love) ==================================== HAL 0.2 "Open the Pod Bay Door, Hal" ==================================== So, I've promised a release of HAL before Christmas, so here goes version 0.2. It's not at version 9000 yet, so it won't do any device configuration (like closing your Pod Bay door device), and it probably never will. That's right, HAL is a lot simpler than earlier envisioned. To get an idea of what I'm talking about, you might want to read the updated spec available at http://freedesktop.org/Software/hal and give the tarball a testdrive. Special thanks to Martin Waitz for patches to package HAL. What is it? =========== HAL is a hardware abstraction layer and aims to provide a live list of devices present in the system at any point in time. HAL tries to understand both physical devices (such as PCI, USB) and the device classes (such as input, net and block) physical devices have, and it allows merging of information from so called device info files specific to a device. HAL provides a network API through D-BUS for querying devices and notifying when things change. Finally, HAL provides some monitoring (in an unintrusive way) of devices, presently ethernet link detection and volume mounts are monitored. This, and more, is all described in the HAL specification Where can I get it? =================== http://freedesktop.org/~david/hal-0.2/spec/hal-spec.html http://freedesktop.org/~david/hal-0.2/hal-0.2.tar.gz How do I build and run HAL? =========================== You'll need recent glib, expat and d-bus from CVS to build HAL. Also pygnome and pygtk is required to run the GUI device manager. A Linux 2.6 kernel is also required. HAL integrates with udev (udev sends D-BUS messages by calling udev_dbus in /etc/dev.d/). You'll also need a recent version of linux-hotplug. The client library, libhal, for use in desktop application, only requires dbus (which doesn't have any dependencies) so both KDE and GNOME people should be happy. To build, do the usual ./configure; make; make install dance. Make sure to install into same prefix as D-BUS, otherwise you'll need to copy some files yourself. Now restart D-BUS to reload the policy configuration files and (as root) start hald - the HAL daemon. You can now start hal-device-manager from a separate terminal. Try plugging or unplugging USB storage or Cardbus (PCMCIA) devices and check out the device list change. Also, try unplugging your network cable while looking at the properties for that device. If you're the advanterous type, you can try to run examples/volumed/volumed.py from the tarball while plugging in USB storage. This example shows how a volume manager built on top of HAL could work. It doesn't really mount anything, but it does print out a line when it would have mounted or unmounted a volume. Obviously, you'll need udev for this. It's also great fun (!) to fiddle around with writing .fdi files for your devices. I've included a single .fdi file in the distribution to match my digital camera. You can also play around with the hal-get-property and hal-set-property tools; the latter can be used to set the info.persistent property to keep unplugged devices in the device list to retain the properties of the device while it is unplugged. Is this stable software? ======================== No way, not yet, at best consider this release a development snapshot. It has been tested on Fedora Core 1 (i386) and Debian (ppc), both with 2.6.0-test11 kernels. There's still lots of small issues I'd wish was resolved before this release, that's detailed in doc/TODO in the tarball. Most of the short term issues will probably be addressed in the next release, 4-8 weeks from this release. Also, important busses, such as IEEE1394, is not supported yet. However, even though the API may change somewhat, I think we have now got the basic infrastructure necessary to start building application and integrating HAL into desktop environments. That was the grand plan anyway :-) Please send bug reports, suggestions and patches to the xdg-list. Do consult the TODO list to see whether the issue is already known.