Demise of the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)

Mark Greenwood fatgerman at gmail.com
Wed Mar 14 00:44:34 UTC 2012


On 14 Mar 2012, at 00:34, Steve Cookson wrote:

> Hi Guys,
> 
> I understand that the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) is being phased out and being replaced by a number of other functions including udisk. 
> 
> Do we have a date or release for this change?  When will I no longer be able to use HAL?
> 
> 

As I understand it, HAL is officially deprecated. It's only included in distros now to support old code which hasn't yet been made udev aware. It depends on what you mean by 'be able to use HAL', but I would suggest you start removing any dependence you have on it ASAP.

Mark
> Regards
> 
> Steve
> 
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