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authorDavid Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>2006-09-11 20:14:58 -0400
committerDavid Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>2006-09-11 20:14:58 -0400
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==========
-HAL 0.5.8 ""
-==========
-
-Requirements for HAL 0.5.8 "" (and HEAD)
+HAL 0.5.8 "The Skynet Funding Bill is passed."
+==========
+
+Released September 11, 2006
+
+Contributors to this release
+
+Artem Kachitchkine:
+ check for getgrouplist() and use the local version if not provided by the
+ use AM_CFLAGS instead of CFLAGS
+ *** empty log message ***
+ * configure.in: don't PKG_CHECK volume_id on Solaris
+ share is_mounted_by_hald() and non-gcc nits
+ CloseTray() method (eject -t)
+
+Dan Nicholson:
+ corrects the location of the hal scripts directory
+
+Dan Williams:
+ Added ROKR e2 to USB Music Players
+
+Danny Kukawka:
+ fixed spec for portable_audio_player namespace properties which not use
+ fixed to be sure that the prober is only called for ttyS* devices. Only
+ Added several USB mp3 player to fdi file:
+ applied patches and added new devices from fd.o bugs: 6101, 6139,
+ fixed remaining_time property, remove the key if battery is charging
+ applied slightly adopted patch and added new device from fd.o bugs:
+ added new translation file for Khmer from SUSE/Novell translation team
+ Added Khmer translation to ALL_LINGUAS
+ Applied slightly adopted patches from fd.o bugs 6317, 6462, 6464, 6561.
+ Moved hal scripts to $(libdir)/hal/scripts instead of
+ Skip stat nfs mounts. This should solve blocked hald (and failing
+ added property for DVD+RW DL to spec
+ fixed problem with parse information from output of dmidecode where the
+ Added support for --use-syslog option to prober and addons. This should
+ Added new mp3-player from fd.o bug #6646
+ removed unneeded code and validate the returned string directly.
+ replaced fprintf () with dbg ()
+ cleanup: s/;;/;/
+ removed (again) unneeded code and validate the returned string directly.
+ Fixed path to the helper of the related backends, added several messages as
+ Added check for bash syntax in scipts to the new backend dirs.
+ Fixed mapping of system.formfactor from smbios.chassis.type. Added a check
+ removed net.interface_up property because we never refresh the value, since
+ set pointer adress to NULL after free()
+ set volume.block_size for blank CD/DVD to 0 to avoid stange values for
+ Fixed libhal_volume_get_size to return volume.size if available instead of
+ Added checks if vbetool is available and executable in /usr/sbin/, added
+ Patch from <chris.hollenbeck@gmail.com> to fix fd.o bug #7029 and correct
+ Added slightly adopted patch from Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> to add
+ fix configure and remove no longer available volume_id/Makefile from
+ Fixed build hal-spec.html to avoid invalid chars in the html page and
+ *** empty log message ***
+ fixed compiler warning about incompatible pointer types
+ fixed building of hal-spec.html
+ Removed Doxygen related files because hal does no longer use
+ Close memory leaks from not freed DBusError in libhal and libhal-storage
+ Close memory leaks from not freed DBusError in tools src dir
+ Fixed possible crash in hal_util_get_normalized_path ()
+ fixed compiler warnings and added doc/api/tmpl/.gitignore
+ Export hal user and group in pkg-config file
+ fixed several compiler warnings (warn_unused_result and format stuff)
+ set proc title for acpi/hid-ups/usb-csr addons
+ replaced LIBHAL_FREE_DBUS_ERROR with dbus_error_free()
+ fixed build of HAL
+ cleanup includes in hald/linux2/*
+ add more scsi.type mapping and add property info to spec
+ reduce useless changes on APM battery.remaining_time
+ remove shared.h for addons/prober and some little fixes
+ fix overseen left dbg() calls in probe-{storage,volume}.c
+ move hald/linux2 to hald/linux and renamed backend
+ fixed make for hald/linux/addons
+ add support for attribute 'empty' for strlist to <match> tag
+ add property alsa.device_pcm_classi
+ Added Panasonic SV-MP31V to USB Music Players
+ added detection of a SDC Card reader
+ performance patch to speed up mapping of pnp_ids to description
+ replaced LIBHAL_FREE_DBUS_ERROR with dbus_error_free()
+ removed not needed dir from repository
+ fixed usage of unchecked returnval from hal_util_strdup_valid_utf8
+ change detection of wireless, add net.irda and net.80211control
+
+David Zeuthen:
+ add cryptsetup-luks dep
+ Post-release version bump to 0.5.8
+ Fix for /usr/sbin/pm-powersave for Fedora pm-utils 0.10-1
+ New file
+ Convert doc comments from Doxygen to gtk-doc
+ New file
+ Add back typedefs for LibHalPropertySetIterator and LibHalContext as they
+ New directory
+ Write requirements for HAL 0.5.8 (and CVS HEAD)
+ Add build rules for hal-policy-is-privileged
+ Generate policy/Makefile and policy/txt/Makefile
+ policy/txt/power-hibernate.policy (Allow),
+ forgot reboot
+ Use new policy framework to enforce policy. Always throw the same exception
+ New file
+ Add entry for my wireless mouse+keyboard combo
+ Move libhal-policy to a dedicated package PolicyKit (available in HAL CVS).
+ Remove libhal-policy bits
+ Patch from Gabriel Burt <gabriel.burt@gmail.com>. Add some useful keys for
+ Patch from Christian Neumair <chris@gnome-de.org>.
+ Use new suffix .privilege instead of .policy and prefix privilege files
+ s/--policy/--privilege/ and s/--uid/--user/
+ Fix for RH bug #185557
+ Patch from Gabriel Burt <gabriel.burt@gmail.com>.
+ Update to new PolicyKit API.
+ Patch from Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>. Move sockets to
+ This patch fixes endian-ness issues with the input device support of hal,
+ In Ubuntu we got several bug reports about device label gibberish, for
+ Don't stat autofs mounts. Patch from John (J5) Palmieri <johnp@redhat.com>.
+ Export a new environment variable with the unique name for callers system
+ Patch from Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> and Danny Kukawka
+ Be explicit about DIST_SUBDIRS as otherwise 'make distcheck' breaks.
+ Set capability volume.disc as required by the spec. Patch from Kevin Ottens
+ Add introspection support to hald.
+ Adds code so addons can claim interfaces and handle the methods on them in
+ Check properly for libpci. Patch from Frederic Peters <fpeters@0d.be>.
+ Handle LABEL= and UUID= in this function. (handle_mount): Also allow uid=
+ git stuff, mount/umount/eject all in C, .hal-mtab usage, light_sensor
+ (forgot to pass -a the first time) git stuff, mount/umount/eject all
+ Forgot to tweak tools/[linux/,freebsd/,]Makefile.am and remove old files.
+ Remove unused stuff.
+ Remove more unused stuff.
+ Remove examples from SUBDIRS; there is no examples/Makefile anymore.
+ Remove unused .fdi files.
+ Fix up LUKS stuff by using new kernel feature in Linux 2.6.17.
+ Change license of hald/linux2/blockdev.c to GPL only as I just
+ update HACKING file to mention git and commit format
+ add *~ to all .gitignore files for emacs users
+ clarify how to get a diff between your local repo and the master repo
+ introduce new option --disable-policy-kit and streamline the build
+ add properties required by a hypothetical disk utility and some bug fixes
+ fix device mapper block device handling as last commit broke this
+ add script examples/watch-mount-state.sh for monitoring key state files
+ update TODO list so it fits in with reality
+ add notes about new power saving mechanisms we should add
+ make a note of runtime power management in the TODO list
+ add note to doc/TODO about making Mount support option 'remount'
+ add note to doc/TODO about the o.fd.Hal.Device.VideoAdapterPM properties
+ add some more notes to doc/TODO
+ fix up device mapper device handling
+ use a more robust way of detecting partitions and fix block.is_volume
+ sleep before looking for slaves/ in sysfs for device mapper
+ fix removal of fakevolume objects and remove special handling for ide-cs
+ actually remove the ide-cs special handling code
+ add API to hald (and libhal) to change multiple properties at once
+ free dbus error freeing in lshal
+ fix up how we handle non-partitioned volumes
+ introduce some new properties for MS-DOS partition tables
+ fix uninitialized pc->merge_type
+ fix up hal interface claiming in cpufreq addon
+ make cpufreq addon use standard D-Bus expections for unknown methods
+ add new partition probing code and adapt hal code to use it
+ make addon-hip-ups use LibHalChangeSet
+ require addons to call libhal_device_addon_is_ready() to make device visible
+ make Mount() support option remount
+ fix some compiler warnings
+ fixup libparted detection
+
+Frederic Crozat:
+ add support for Mandriva's tools for suspend and hibernate
+
+Gabriel Burt:
+ Clarify what portable_audio_player.folder_depth means.
+
+Holger Macht:
+ add cpu frequency scaling support to hal
+
+Joe Marcus Clarke:
+ Split out the tools scripts into an OS-independent wrapper, and an
+ Add scripts to EXTRA_DIST
+ Remove a script which is only found in the OS-independent section. Spotted
+ Rename hal-luks-remove.in-linux to hal-luks-remove-linux.in to preserve the
+
+Julien Sobrier:
+ add Archos Gmini 400 to USB Music Players
+
+Julio M. Merino Vidal:
+ make libhal link against libintl for NetBSD (bug #6471)
+ do not use GNU specific == operator in calls to test(1) (bug 6467)
+
+Kai Willadsen:
+ add Samsung U2Z to USB Music Players
+
+Kay Sievers:
+ Add squashfs detection.
+ Add printer command set returned by 1284 query. "Each key will have at
+ Read name of cpu from /proc/cpuinfo. Some day we will have this in sysfs,
+ Add "COMMANDSET:" to the printer query parsing.
+ getline() expects size_t; fix alignment warning
+ fix typo
+ Prepare for new class devices showing up in /sys/devices instead of
+ Depend on external shared version of libvolume_id.
+ If HAL finds already created partitions, it will not longer probe for a
+ Remove internal copy of libvolume_id.
+ remove left over file from volume_id
+ Increase HAL_PATH_MAX from 256 to 512.
+ Remove dead code.
+ remove dead files after dead code removal
+ Replace dbus_connection_disconnect() with dbus_connection_close() (D-BUS
+ Fix requirements. The 'hotplug multiplexer' is gone long time ago.
+ .cvsignore -> .gitignore
+ add .o files to .gitignore
+ ISO-8859-1 -> UTF-8
+
+Kevin Ottens:
+ correct the introspection to list all objects
+
+Lennart Poettering:
+ added some USB card reader from fd.o bug #7749
+
+Mark McLoughlin:
+ add support for Xen devices
+
+Michael Burns:
+ fix ACPI acpid/proc configure options
+
+Patrick Cherry:
+ add Samsung YP-Z5 to USB Music Players
+
+Richard:
+ Add some more temp files to the .gitignore files.
+ Correct the error name, obviously a copy/paste error that's lived undetected in CVS for years.
+ Check for the new suspend2 sysfs location. Advised by Nigel Cunningham, many thanks.
+
+Richard Hughes:
+ Fix build by including the new policy directory in the tarball, and by
+ Convert the key names to include a central dash between words, e.g.
+ Build hald-addon-acpi-buttons-toshiba. When the acpi->input patches get
+ Append hald-addon-acpi-buttons-toshiba
+ Ammend the spec as now button.has_state and button.type are not mandatory.
+ Patch from Paolo Borelli <pborelli@katamail.com>.
+ Refresh device types button, battery and ac_adapter on resume, as a suspend
+ Added new Logitech csr mice, mainly from Bastien Nocera for fd.o 6397. Also
+ Add --print-reply to dbus-send else the Rescan does not work. This should
+ Update the patch from http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6397 as
+ Patch from Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>:
+ Patch from Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>:
+ Patch from Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>:
+ * hald/linux2/osspec.c: (set_suspend_hibernate_keys): Depreciate the keys
+ * doc/spec/hal-spec.html: * doc/spec/hal-spec.xml.in: *
+ Add org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel.GetBrightness and
+ Rework a patch from Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> to fix a typo in
+ On some laptops, the brightness control is all done in hardware but the
+ Change the docbook2html check in the configure script to check for xmlto.
+ Re-add --print-reply to dbus-send else the Rescan does not work. This fixes
+ Add the video_adapter_pm namespace key descriptions for video power
+ Only allow org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.VideoAdapterPM to be used by root.
+ This adds a css style file to the generated html file. It makes the tables
+ Add the video adapter suspend and resume functionality so we can just drop
+ Update these with the new files to keep cvs diff happy.
+ As found in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345257 the hal
+ add spawn to dtd so make distcheck works
+ Add more files to .gitignore
+ properly convert mAh to mWh rather than uWh
+ modify battery.technology to one of a few present values
+ fix message when we try to set a brightness above range
+ fix the maximum brightness level for pmu hardware
+
+S.Çağlar Onur:
+ added Turkish translations
+
+Sjoerd Simons:
+ Also recognize mute, volume up/down buttons, switchvideo mode button and
+ Add Catalan translation
+ hald-runner/runner.c: Close the stderr filedescriptor after reading it to
+ hald/linux/blockdev.c: Don't print things we don't have the arguments for. In
+
+Requirements for HAL 0.5.8 "The Skynet Funding Bill is passed."
- Linux kernel >= 2.6.17
- util-linux >= 2.12r1
@@ -12,8 +280,10 @@ Requirements for HAL 0.5.8 "" (and HEAD)
- glib >= 2.6.0
- expat >= 1.95.8
- libusb >= 0 0.1.10a (optional)
+ - pciutils >= 2.2.3 (optional
- dmidecode >= 2.7 (optional)
- - cryptsetup-luks => 1.0.1 (optional, needs LUKS patches)
+ - parted == 1.7.1 (optional)
+ - cryptsetup-luks >= 1.0.1 (optional, needs LUKS patches)
==========
HAL 0.5.7 "Dead as Dillinger."
@@ -35,7 +305,7 @@ Released February 24, 2006
- Remove drive_id and use udev data on coldplug (Kay Sievers)
- Switch eject detection to SG_IO interface, Novell #145147 (Kay Sievers)
- Start scripts in the directory they exist in (David Zeuthen)
- - Don't use card id in ALSA and OSS UDI's (Jürg Billeter)
+ - Don't use card id in ALSA and OSS UDI's (Jürg Billeter)
- Laptop panel objects and fixes (Richard Hughes)
- Pseudo bus for scsi_debug support (Kay Sievers)
- Samsung YP-U1 music player fdi file (Andrew Smith)
@@ -164,7 +434,7 @@ Released November 14, 2005
- Handle invalid UTF-8 from serial numbers of storage devices (Danny Kukawka)
- Try reconnect to acpid (Danny Kukawka)
- - Calculate rate when not reported (Søren Hansen, Danny Kukawka)
+ - Calculate rate when not reported (Søren Hansen, Danny Kukawka)
- fd.o bugs #4871, #2850, #2121, #3954, #4266, #4644, #2115,
#3036(Danny Kukawka, Others)
- Major rework of lshal (Pierre Ossman)
@@ -377,7 +647,7 @@ Released Nov 2, 2004
added to e.g. /etc/fstab
- Refine PCMCIA socket location to better work with strict SELinux
(from Dan Walsh)
- - Make configure.in require libcap development headers (Tim Müller)
+ - Make configure.in require libcap development headers (Tim Müller)
- Change default storage policy to not add fixed non-hotpluggable disks
to e.g. /etc/fstab (as ATARAID detection is not yet complete)
- Support PCMCIA 16-bit network devices (Dan Williams)
@@ -436,7 +706,7 @@ Released Oct 17, 2004
- Fix end-of-marker and FAT UUID conversion (Kay Sievers)
- storage.icon.drive, storage.icon.volume properties (David Zeuthen)
- storage.require_eject property (David Zeuthen)
- - French libhal-storage translations (Jérôme Lodewyck)
+ - French libhal-storage translations (Jérôme Lodewyck)
- LVM2/RAID detection fixes (Kay Sievers)
- New libhal-storage library and i18n support (David Zeuthen)
- Partition id fixes (Kay Sievers)