From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 30 21:38:46 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4016A106564A for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:38:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1A118FC25 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:38:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 19355 invoked by uid 399); 30 Sep 2010 21:38:45 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.142?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 30 Sep 2010 21:38:45 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4CA50363.2030500@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:38:43 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <20100929211253.GA1250@freebsd.org> <4CA3B393.8060206@icyb.net.ua> <4CA3BD7C.9080306@feral.com> <4CA4FC05.3020407@FreeBSD.org> <4CA5011D.8080804@FreeBSD.org> <4CA50283.4000601@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4CA50283.4000601@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.2a1pre OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: letting glabel recognise a media change X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:38:46 -0000 On 9/30/2010 2:34 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 9/30/2010 2:29 PM, Dimitry Andric wrote: >> On 2010-09-30 23:07, Doug Barton wrote: >>> To what extent is HAL relevant here? I was sort of ambivalent about >>> using it in FreeBSD, but my recent experimentation with ubuntu is >>> starting to change my mind. >> >> Please read this first: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Halsectomy :) > > Right, especially the bits about moving the functionality into the kernel. Sorry, I'm being too terse. What I'm saying is that we have an existing "notifications" model that third party apps already know how to deal with. If we're considering developing a notifications model of our own then we are well served by looking at the work that has gone before (without violating copyright issues, yadda yadda). hth, Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/