Re: DeviceKit-disks proposal

[Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus freebsd org>]

Frederic Peters wrote:
> Richard Hughes wrote:
> 
>> Just another point of interest: gnome-power-manager uses new
>> DeviceKit-disks functionality by default to try and get the system
>> disks to spin down, or use a low power state where possible. If
> 
> Excellent!
> 
> 
>> DK-disks isn't blessed, then I need to add some #ifdef's in the g-p-m
>> code.
> 
> It would nevertheless be nice to have it optional, for our *BSD and
> OpenSolaris friends, as they most probably won't have DeviceKit-disks
> for 2.28.

Or any DK stuff yet.  For FreeBSD, I'm considering using DK as a wrapper
around hal as udev does not exist on FreeBSD (nor ever will most
likely).  The problem I have is time.  In the meantime, we're still on
g-p-m 2.24 as 2.26 requires DK.

Joe

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