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Kernel Summit 2006: The user-space API

Posted Jul 18, 2006 12:28 UTC (Tue) by cventers (subscriber, #31465)
Parent article: Kernel Summit 2006: The user-space API

It's interesting and surprising that they would consider adopting Hal. I
think Hal's a very necessary project and needs some work, and bringing it
into the kernel source would probably help. But it sounds like a little
bit of a crazy idea. Isn't Hal supposed to be multiplatform?

Perhaps what is needed is just better communication between Hal and LKML?

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Posted Jul 18, 2006 16:28 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

the HAL api presented to userspace should be cross platform, but the part of HAL that does the work is very platform specific. a cross platform version is just all the specific versions combined with ifdefs and similar

Kernel Summit 2006: The user-space API

Posted Jul 19, 2006 9:35 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

The different platform versions are actually in subdirectories, not ifdeffed out. HAL's not *that* ugly. :)