Hey, I found out that there is a new non-RC version of hal now: 0.5.12.
This version has these fowling changes: 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variable from commit 702351eaea4 add battery.quirk.do_not_poll to spec removed deprecated properties from spec removed outdated deprecated keys finally from spec Revert "allow 'locale=' NTFS mount option for Linux" unify set volume.ignore for recovery partitions Revert "adapt HAL to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://dkuka...@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://dkuka...@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://dkuka...@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal Merge branch 'master' of ssh://dkuka...@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://dkuka...@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://dkuka...@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://hughsi...@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/ But, I would leave this one off to 7.0. Why? Because it now requires Util-Linux-ng >= 2.15. However, you can use HAL 0.5.12rc1 for 6.4, because that doesn't need Util-Linux >= 2.15, and it Just Works. William -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
