========== HAL 0.5.9.1 ========== Released June 18th 2007. Mainly a bugfix release. Requirements for HAL 0.5.9.1. - Linux kernel >= 2.6.17 - util-linux >= 2.12r1 (--enable-umount-helper requires patch from RH #188193) - bash >= 2.0 - udev >= 089 - dbus >= 0.61 (with glib bindings) - glib >= 2.6.0 - expat >= 1.95.8 - hal-info >= 20070618 - libusb >= 0 0.1.10a (optional) - pciutils >= 2.2.3 (optional - dmidecode >= 2.7 (optional) - parted == 1.7.1, 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.86 (optional) - cryptsetup-luks >= 1.0.1 (optional, needs LUKS patches) - libsmbios >= 0.13.4 (optional for DELL machines, Linux only) - dellWirelessCtl >= 0.13.4 (optional, for Dell machines, must live in /usr/bin/, Linux only) - ConsoleKit >= 0.2.0 (optional) - pm-utils >= 0.99.2 or newer (optional) ========== HAL 0.5.9 "Precipice" ========== Released April 2, 2007. Requirements for HAL 0.5.9 "Precipice": - Linux kernel >= 2.6.17 - util-linux >= 2.12r1 (--enable-umount-helper requires patch from RH #188193) - bash >= 2.0 - udev >= 089 - dbus >= 0.61 (with glib bindings) - glib >= 2.6.0 - expat >= 1.95.8 - hal-info >= 20070402 - libusb >= 0 0.1.10a (optional) - pciutils >= 2.2.3 (optional - dmidecode >= 2.7 (optional) - parted == 1.7.1, 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.86 (optional) - cryptsetup-luks >= 1.0.1 (optional, needs LUKS patches) - libsmbios >= 0.13.4 (optional for DELL machines, Linux only) - dellWirelessCtl >= 0.13.4 (optional, for Dell machines, must live in /usr/bin/, Linux only) - ConsoleKit >= 0.2.0 (optional) - pm-utils >= 0.99.2 or newer (optional) Contributors to HAL 0.5.9 "Precipice": Alex Kanavin (1): provide textual interface description for USB devices Andreas Hanke (1): fixes for AS_AC_EXPAND usage breaks hal-device-manager Artem Kachitchkine (5): hald/linux/ids -> hald/ids and minor fixes fix minor memory leaks do not let tools coredump if HAL is not running Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal solaris backend Bastien Nocera (1): killswitch infrastructure for Bluetooth and use /dev/sonypi instead of spicctrl Dan Nicholson (1): POSIX shells do not support '==' tests Daniel Nylander (1): added Swedish translation file Danny Kukawka (63): replaced LIBHAL_FREE_DBUS_ERROR with dbus_error_free() fixed acpi problems with incorrect low current voltage values fixed usage of dbus_error_is_set(error == NULL) due to D-Bus changes fixed detection of wireless devices with dscape kernel stack fix copy_property for merge in FDI files replace usage of g_assert() with error handling Merge branch 'master' of ssh://dkukawka@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal add hardware dependent/specific alsa sound devices to HAL fixed compiler warning fixed automake for linux fixed typo in 20-storage-methods.fdi remove unneeded close() calls fixed code docu in libhal removed not needed '.in' version of a luks script fixed segmentation fault in xen code Fix to guarantee that udi get generated before process FDI changed error handling for hal-storage-shared.c fixed detection of libsmbios to check for >= v0.11.6 changed D-Bus error if /sbin/cryptsetup is not available remove sanitizing passwords for luks and prevent word splitting/path expansion fix detection of max. available omnibook brightness levels fix get/set brightness for sonypi/spiccrtl added new section for deprecated properties to spec fixed compiler warnings fix .hal-mtab mountpoint handling detect path to dmidecode on runtime (fd.o bug #9318) added hald-addon-dell-backlight to .gitignore fix gtk-doc code documentation fix (more) gtk-doc code documentation fixed typo in spec add copy_property FDI directive for stringlist properties fixed compiler warning in addon-dell-backlight fixed compiler warning fix compiler warning in libhal fixed compiler warning in create_cache.c fixed commit 882085a0, forgot cast to unsigned long typo fix fixed uid datatype in CallerInfo to unsigned long added new fdi match attribute 'contains_not' for strings and strlist added hald-probe-ieee1394-unit to .gitignore libhal: validate parameter to be != NULL fix expat detection in configure fixed code documentation added some files to .gitignore removed not needed string from translation files added support for ALSA MIDI devices validate error D-Bus names returned on stderror change usb*.version_bcd/usb*.speed_bcd to new double keys added hal-system-power-pm-is-supported to .gitignore fixed libsmbios search output to correct version updated requirements in NEWS file void hal-device-manager to open multiple about dialogs fix for new pciutils which need to link against zlib Merge branch 'master' of ssh://dkukawka@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal fix configure for DELL stuff fixed quoting and added allowed libparted versions to error output added .gitignore to new doc/man dir update several .gitignore files added optional support for IBM ACPI (hotkey) events. added configure option to enable build Toshiba ACPI button addon add more cdrom information update .gitignore updated German translation file David Woodhouse (1): fix crash on PPC Pegasos that don't have PMU, ACPI or APM David Zeuthen (196): post-release version bump to 0.5.9 fix race condition when unmounting a volume takes a very long time don't lock the .hal-mtab file at all when checking mount status on unmount don't update mount state until Unmount() returns fix stupid typo in syslog reporting for Mount() only install PolicyKit privilege files if we're using PolicyKit only require libvolume_id >= 061 write new requirements for 0.5.9 including requiring udev >= 089 don't fail, print warning if ARPHRD_IEEE80211_{RADIOTAP,PRISM} is not defined fix up overflow of 32-bit variable when getting 64-bit value remove unneeded debug send changes in correct order for LibHalChangeSet remove dead code introduced by commit 0ae1aed74548fec563399d00100d621ce99b383b enable looking for data track on optical discs export Eject() even on discs where we can't detect a file system probe for partitions on data discs where we fail to detect an fs add a note about checking that optical drives supports the cmd's we are sending don't build Macbook Pro utils on non-x86 Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal remove gtk-doc tmpl files from source control make cpufreq support optional make Macbook Pro utils x86 only again split out Macbook Pro matching into separate fdi file make usb csr support optional fix up typo in usb csr detection stat special device file, not the mount point don't crash on cd drives without write capabilities don't add non-existing partition entries for MS-DOS disk labels add some thoughts about optimization work needed make it easier to measure startup time some memory optimization work clean up HalDevice and HalProperty a bit make HalProperty private to HalDevice implementation (makes it easier to nuke) use an iterator to iterate over strlist instead of using GSList switch device_info.c to use strlist iterator fix crasher in GetProperty() method use a hash table for device properties implement missing functions after move to hash table properties removed unneeded and fragile async matching from device store move property code into device object core free hash table before the private object to prevent segfault Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal switch running_processes to using a list + fix a few memory leaks Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal revert hald/device_info.c back to state from June 2006 forward port changes made to hald/device_info.c since June 2006 fix segfault on cleaning up rules report how much memory the rules use comment out some debugging spew from fdi matching use mmap to access pci.ids and usb.ids make pnp.ids static to save writable memory add note about possibly handling multi-session discs a bit better fix setting power_management.is_powersave_set misc build fixes for libparted and libpci fix for freeing static memory + move hal_util_readlink() into hald/util.c fix up compile warnings after last patch call dbus_error_free() directly to avoid spew on stderr fix up libsmbios detection fix up how volume.ignore is set so it also applies to hotpluggable drives fix up a few things with the new fdi cache reduce debugging spew for fdi files add optional support for ConsoleKit Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal make HAL track ConsoleKit seats and sessions and initial work on ACL mgmt Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal fix up coding style for hald_runner.c more CK and ACL mgmt work remove autogenarated HTML as it clutters up the commit logs more ACL management work; now it's actually usuable fix typo for HALD_ACTION for session changes use $(localstatedir) instead of /var and make hald DTRT when CK goes away add ACL management for remaining devices recognized by HAL clean up some dangerous use of the LIBHAL_FREE_DBUS_ERROR macro remove annoying LIBHAL_FREE_DBUS_ERROR spew to stderr build time for /sbin/umount.hal and make our mount helper use this make umount.hal work when options like -v are passed to umount make /sbin/umount.hal handle mounts points as well use -Wl,--as-needed by default for gcc Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal make hald-addon-storage use hints from ConsoleKit about session idleness make hald-addon-storage usage of ConsoleKit depend on HAVE_CONKIT update dependencies and versions for HAL only invoke hal-acl-tool if HAVE_ACLMGMT is set update NEWS to suggest latest hal-info (for bluetooth killswitch changes) use g_ascii_strtoull() instead of g_ascii_strtoll() refuse to eject if we can't open the device exclusively with Linux's libata, IDE Zip drives can now be polled for media changes add support for new Firewire stack on Linux handle multiple / remote seats make lshal print the current time print out error if probe-volume hangs fix input probing and discard /proc/acpi events if ACPI sysfs sources are used make Device.Rescan() work for refreshing button state when using ACPI input use inotify to watch fdi directories map new fdi cache file post regeneration minor fixes probe firewire AVC devices sort properties in lshal output move preprobe fdi files to hal-info fix detection of mounted volumes from yanked storage devices fix device removal when mounted devices not mounted by HAL are yanked out on Rescan() for ACPI batteries, retrieve all properties (slow path) assign ACL's to Firewire IIDC (including iSight) and AVC devices generate the fdi cache synchronously avoid old .bak files for the fdi cache relax error handling for fdi files fix up debug- and valgrind- scripts to actually work don't give ACL's to uid 0 Revert "without PolicyKit, allow only root to mount fixed disks" stop using noexec by default on Linux instead of assuming they're blank, probe unknown discs if they're large some fixes to make distcheck work again Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal fix build Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal make the fdi cache test stricter by not allowing skipped fdi files avoid "Not Specified" values as these stem from dmidecode itself add workaround for gtk-doc for now (bgo #386508) also make sure libhal.types is empty avoid setting pci.vendor, pci.product, usb.vendor to useless "Unknown (XXX)" Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal fix up memory handling of exp_detail and remove dead code define 'scanner' capability add ACL's for scanners add support for SuspendHybrid and make use of pm-is-supported fix typo fix umount.hal so correct return value is passed use libsmbios to add support for bluetooth, wlan RF kill on Dell laptops forgot to add 10-rfkill-switch.fdi (renamed from 10-bluetooth-switch.fdi) avoid logging when client asks for non-existant property fix segfault in lshal where strlist prop was removed just after it changed add named mandatory locking API remove dead code switch to xmlto and heavily fix up the spec fix up introspection bits more spec changes move caller tracking into it's own class refactor access control checks into separate files add interface locking and remove generic locking API committed yesterday don't set INVOKED_BY_SYSTEMBUS_CONNECTION_NAME unless call is from bus add docs for how locking work fixup speling for Dell, disable physical killswitch when setting power don't disk example-manager.py as it doesn't exist anymore don't dist hal-linux26.dia either since it has gone the way of the Dodo too try usbclass handler before usb and try all handlers until we find something remove doc/conf and remember to install the CSS stylesheet Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal check that dellWirelessCtl exists before using it mention that dellWirelessCtl is optional clarify search paths for device information files ran 'make update-po' create entire fdi file hierarchy according to spec including /etc/hal/fdi bits Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal fix build rules for spec fix up spec generation a bit more add manual pages hint that a patch to util-linux is needed when using --enable-umount-helper improve wording in note about --enable-umount-helper enable docbook docs by default use AM_PROG_CC_C_O to avoid warning when configuring sources fix up SEE ALSO section in lshal's man page allow mount options 'acl' and 'user_xattr' for ext3 clean up locking example fix up ReleaseGlobalInterfaceLock() and improve locking example make LUKS setup/teardown respect the standard .Volume and .Storage locks make libhal locking API take 'bool exclusive' and fix a bug only acquire a lock exclusively if no-one else is holding the lock add new hal-lock(1) utility Merge branch 'master' of ssh://david@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal fix up hal-lock manpage don't build docs by default as it breaks distcheck specify path to eject at build time clarify locking on the Volume.Crypto interface use the right interface in the example in hal-lock.1 fix IBM, Toshiba ACPI hotkey handling clarify search path for callouts, addons and method calls. remove unused variables change locking semantics a bit and add guidelines for SystemPowerManagement change locking semantics slightly and add missing locking bits avoid crash if an addon is using IsLockedByOthers() avoid polling when a drive is locked make hal-lock(1) provide an --exit-with-dev option update hal-lock(1)'s man page and fix usage() add hal-disable-polling(1) program along with a man page give back the "button" capability to keyboards update hal-info requirement to 20070328 update TODO list teach fdi.dtd about contains_not, rip out RNG scheme use UTF-8 for the generated HTML require autoconfig 2.59c or newer mention umount helper as default options to use add docs for access_control namespace reword bit of the spec fix typo document the RF killswitch namespace and interface ran 'make update-po' print docdir in configure summary update NEWS for 0.5.9 release Doug Chapman (1): fix unaligned messages (RH Bug #210079) Erik Andrén (2): add addon for backlight control on Dell computers make the amount of Dell backlight levels dynamic Frederic Crozat (1): handle system bus restarts Frederic Peters (1): use VOLUME_ID_CFLAGS Guillem Jover (2): respect --disable-pmu for hal-system-power-pmu rename nokia770 to omap Holger Macht (12): fixed typos in cpufreq addon Fix the D-Bus restart case for the CPUFreq addon. The D-Bus connection you add /sys/class/backlight/* interface support Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://homac@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal revert logic for setting and getting "consider_nice" setting throw exception if D-Bus connection of sender is NULL Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://homac@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal additional error check trigger pm-utils for hibernate, suspend and SetPowerSave on SUSE Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://homac@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal allow hibernate, suspend and CPUFreq for the root user independent of desktop-console Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://homac@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal Jean-Yves Lefort (11): fix python shebang line add FreeBSD and Solaris support implement HAL_PROPERTY_TYPE_STRLIST support in merge_device_rewrite_cb and fix some potential NULL-pointer dereferences add a osspec_privileged_init function for initializing backend objects prior to dropping root privileges add casts to fix build errors on FreeBSD break out the PCI and USB IDs initialization into two separate functions favor CAM devices over ATAPI devices correct SCSI to atapi mapping power down instead of halting the system avoid an infinite loop with buggy PCI firmware ensure that UDIs of ATA and SCSI devices are unique Joe Marcus Clarke (11): add support for FreeBSD mount options add FreeBSD support disable partutil for FreeBSD add FreeBSD support add the FreeBSD backend fix potnential crash when changing disc media fix ATA support for FreeBSD 5.X flesh out mount options for FreeBSD Merge branch 'master' of ssh://marcus@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal fix disc volume detection on FreeBSD 5.X ensure there are no embedded slashes in UDI components John (J5) Palmieri (1): use g_slist_remove_link instead of g_slist_remove Kareem Dana (1): fix probe-storage and addon-storage competing for O_EXCL on cdrom device Kay Sievers (13): fix casting to avoid compiler error rework Linux coldplug to work with future kernel changes merge Linux class and bus device handling Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal store fdi files as rules object remove left-over "class device" from debug output linux coldplug: prepare for new sysfs layout change email address rename "bus" and "physical" properties to something more abstract Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal fix scsi_host parent relationship Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal fix scsi-device-handling for devices we probe but don't add Kevin Ottens (1): add property for power save state Kristian Høgsberg (4): initialize pollfd array correctly. update ieee1394 prober to ioctl interface changes. report AV/C subunits instead of AV/C unit in ieee1394 probe. use sysfs attributes instead of parsing config rom file. Martin Pitt (7): without PolicyKit, allow only root to mount fixed disks allow 'locale=' NTFS mount option for Linux h-d-m: beautify list values output fix Omnibook LCD brightness levels fix bashism in tools/linux/hal-system-lcd-get-brightness-linux fix 'bus type' display in h-d-m fix crash because of missing return value check Matthew Garrett (1): add new battery, bluetooth, wireless key events Matthias Kretz (2): better ALSA card name reread /proc/cards to make hotplugging sound cards work Michael Biebl (5): inotify support for systems without sys/inotify.h inotify support for systems without sys/inotify.h fix section for hald man page properly use $(docdir) as_ac_removal Patrice Dumas (1): mention libhal in the docs Priit Laes (2): added Estonian translation removed translatable tag from value field of capabilties Richard Hughes (34): Make sure we get all of a multi-word battery.model value. allow build without PolicyKit allow make distcheck to work with a readonly buildroot ignore the special ACPI 'Ones' value for rate move the information scripts to hal-info move the information scripts to hal-info split the logitec csr mice detection vids-pids into hal info Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://hughsient@git.freedesktop.org/git/hal Add some information keys to the spec for hardware recalls. add prefix and suffix to the fdi attribute list add --retain-privileges so we can use massif make the acpi, apm and pmu backends inclusion configurable fix the libparted checking script only build the pmu addon when we use pmu add info about hal-info to HACKING and add dependency to NEWS change trivial %% typo in the acpi battery code move the power_management.quirk.* properties add new files to .gitignore files fix libusb detection fix pmu laptop screen on new kernels move laptop_panel.brightness_in_hardware data to hal-info make the hal suspend and hibernate scripts use the quirk command line of pm-utils remove hal-spec.html from the tarball remove bak files from git-status output remove the hal-system-video-*-linux files remove the zzz script from suspend add --quirk-radeon-off allow use of libparted 1.8.2 fix the smbios.*.* keys to be a little more sane fix acpi detection for very new kernels Fix error initialisation in acpi addon to fix ac adapter event reporting added hal-acl-tool executable to .gitignore add support for the macbook backlight add libparted v1.8.6 to configure Rob Taylor (15): Make haldaemon and haluser vaiables in hal.pc Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal Remove linux.sysfs_path_device key Remove checking for run-time usb.ids and pci.ids at build time Make hotplugging non-recursive. Merge branch 'master' into to-push Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal Add back autodetection of usb.ids and pci.ids when not specified. Merge branch 'to-push' Fix compile warning on PPC. Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal ignore *.py[oc] and *.gcno add option to build without libpci add compare_ne to possible matchrules Move COMPARE_NE to end of match_type enum. S.Çağlar Onur (3): get ARPHRD_IEEE80211_RADIOTAP and similar from kernel, not glibc headers patch corrects some typos in tr.po and addon-cpufreq.c add pm-suspend to linux/hal-system-power-suspend-linux Sergey Lapin (9): fix for crash in hald_dbus.c use mallopt since we mostly allocate small chunks reduce memory fragmentation by using POSIX readlink rather than glib add Nokia 770 backlight addon use POSIX readdir instead of g_dir_open add file for Nokia 770 backlight move fdi file parsing into a separate process Returned back unit test executable. Fixed distcheck problem Sjoerd Simons (9): Always set power_management.can_suspend to true if the power_management.type is Let probe-smbios only return successfully if it actually got something Set system.formfactor fallback in exactly one place instead of three and be Read out model and compatible property out of openfirmware if possible. And use the openfirmware module property to decide what formfactor the system has. Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal * Fix some code-style issues that David commented on Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/hal prevent hald-runner from printing unnecessary warning messages work around cdrom devices giving invalid TOC info Steven Walter (1): Add match for Creative Zen Nano USB music player Thomas Petazzoni (1): fix python example to work with a recent dbus Timo Hoenig (1): don't call dbus_connection_close() for some of our tools Tomasz Torcz (3): Add Z31t to the list of laptops needing laptop_panel.brightness_in_hardware Add ThinkPad T60 to the list of laptops needing laptop_panel.brightness_in_hardware Add ThinkPad X60 and X60s to the list of laptops needing William Jon McCann (6): build fixes two build fixes sizing fixes for device manager improve api docs fix api docs even more hal updates for latest ConsoleKit ========== 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 to fix fd.o bug #7029 and correct Added slightly adopted patch from Bob Copeland 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 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 . Add some useful keys for Patch from Christian Neumair . 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 . Update to new PolicyKit API. Patch from Joe Marcus Clarke . 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 . Export a new environment variable with the unique name for callers system Patch from Joe Marcus Clarke 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 . 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 . 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 : Patch from Bastien Nocera : Patch from Bastien Nocera : * 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 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 - bash >= 2.0 - udev >= 082 - dbus >= 0.60 (with glib bindings) - glib >= 2.6.0 - expat >= 1.95.8 - libusb >= 0 0.1.10a (optional) - pciutils >= 2.2.3 (optional - dmidecode >= 2.7 (optional) - parted == 1.7.1 (optional) - cryptsetup-luks >= 1.0.1 (optional, needs LUKS patches) ========== HAL 0.5.7 "Dead as Dillinger." ========== Released February 24, 2006 - Fix spelling error for UnknowFailure in eject method (David Zeuthen) - Kill subfs support in mount scripts (Kay Sievers) - Privilege separation mega patch (Sjoerd Simons) - Allow ejection of audio and blank discs (John Palmieri, David Zeuthen) - Fix QueryCapability (Kevin Ottens) - Disc capacity, fdo #2233 (William Jon McCann) - Remove fstab-sync and related things (David Zeuthen) - Remove volume.policy.* and storage.policy.* properties (David Zeuthen) - Remove hotplug helper and use a udev rule instead (Kay Sievers) - Remove old code for pcmcia fstab files (David Zeuthen) - Add HP_RECOVERY to black-list of volumes to ignore (David Zeuthen) - 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) - Laptop panel objects and fixes (Richard Hughes) - Pseudo bus for scsi_debug support (Kay Sievers) - Samsung YP-U1 music player fdi file (Andrew Smith) - Listen on appropriate input devices and generate appropriate ButtonPressed events (Matthew Garrett) - Export Mount, Unmount, Eject on drives we cannot poll (David Zeuthen) - Only allow uid 0 and uid who mounted a volume to unmount it (David Zeuthen) - Use hal's Unmount() for surprise removal (David Zeuthen) - Make HAL cleanup mountpoints created by Mount() even if it was unmounted by e.g. umount(1) (David Zeuthen) - Allow spaces and UTF-8 in mount points (Jeffrey Stedfast, David Zeuthen) - Fix UTF-8 validation of filesystem labels (David Zeuthen) - Add Teardown to the Device.Volume.Crypto interface (David Zeuthen) - Fix problems with dbus_error (Danny Kukawka) - fix mapping system.formfactor from smbios (Danny Kukawka) - Make StringListRemove actually work (David Zeuthen) - Serialize method calls and don't crash if the device object went away while methods were enqueued (David Zeuthen) - Refuse to Mount() volumes listed in /etc/fstab (Ludwig Nussel) - Fix get_uuid() and get_fsversion() in libhal-storage (David Zeuthen) - Don't do initgroups (Martin Pitt) - Fix libhal-storage memory leaks (David Zeuthen, reported by Brendan Creane) - Tear down crypto links on surprise removal (David Zeuthen) - Sync volume_id with udev version (Kay Sievers) - Add two functions crypto_get_clear_volume_udi and crypto_get_backing_volume_udi to libhal-storage (David Zeuthen) - More privilege dropping (Martin Pitt) - Add Blu-ray and HD DVD to code and spec (Artem Kachitchkine) - Use blocking mode for PMU (Sjoerd Simons) - Use a safe PATH in hald by default (Sjoerd Simons) Requirements for HAL 0.5.7 "Dead as Dillinger." - Linux kernel >= 2.6.15 - util-linux >= 2.13 - bash >= 2.0 - udev >= 078 (using udevsend as hotplug multiplexer) - dbus >= 0.60 (with glib bindings) - glib >= 2.6.0 - expat >= 1.95.8 - libusb >= 0 0.1.10a (optional) - dmidecode >= 2.7 (optional) - cryptsetup-luks => 1.0.1 (optional, needs LUKS patches) ========== HAL 0.5.6 "Leave the gun. Take the cannoli." ========== Released January 16, 2006 - new volume_id from udev upstream (Kay Sievers) - listen to udev via a socket (Kay Sievers) - Another USB card reader common theme (Pozsar Balazs) - volume_id version 55 to fix strange FAT detection issues (Kay Sievers) - Sony Ericsson mobile phones with Memory Stick (Pro Duo) fdi (Danny Kukawka) - Samsung Yepp YP-ST5 fdi (Davide Ferrari) - Use hash table for calculated charge rate (Danny Kukawka) - Add checks to power management scripts (Danny Kukawka) - Move scripts to $(datadir)/hal/scripts (Danny Kukawka) - Fix for refreshing battery values on AC adapter transition (Richard Hughes) - Add power_management.[can_suspend,can_hibernate] and remove the power_management.is_enabled keys (Richard Hughes) - Use the new poll-able /proc/mounts file from 2.6.15 (Kay Sievers) - Allow strlists to be passed to method calls (Kay Sievers) - Add Mount, Unmount, Eject methods to the new org.freedesktop.Hal.Device. Volume interface (Kay Sievers) - Update driver prop on physical device if class device binds (Kay Sievers) - Force 'rate' to be zero if battery is neither charging nor discharging (Ryan Lortie) - Fix our DTD file and add validation for fdi files (Artem Kachitchkine) - Add Shutdown() and Reboot() methods (Richard Hughes) - Add HAL_METHOD_INVOKED_BY_UID to method call environment (Kay Sievers) - Switch from xattr to .create-by-hal-file at mount point to determine if a mount point is created by HAL's Mount() method (Kay Sievers) - Remove HAL-created mount points at startup (Kay Sievers) - SCSI generic device recognizition (Kay Sievers) - Restrict org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume to the console user (Kay Sievers) - Set drive_type to 'disk' for new TYPE_RBC (Firewire) devices (Danny Kukawka) - Added TEAC CD-R55S to list of broken CD/DVD burner (Danny Kukawka) - Move uid_export to root scope to avoid corruption (Aaron Bockover) - Introduce volume.mount.valid_options and generalize mount script (David Zeuthen) - Remove dead code in lshal (Danny Kukawka) - Add neeeded NULL termination of an array (Chris Spiegel, fd.o #5279) - Also let uid 0 invoke methods restricted to console user (Richard Hughes) - Fix more vulnerabilities in script for Mount(), Unmount(), Eject() (Kay Sievers, David Zeuthen) - Add battery.reporting.* to UPS'es (David Zeuthen) - Fixup a few compiler warnings (Danny Kukawka) - UK translations (Ivan Petrouchtchak) - V4L and DVB device recognizition (Kay Sievers) - Match on info.capabilities, not info.category (John Palmieri) - Sony PSP music player fdi file (James Henstridge, fd.o #5137) - Fix incorrect reporting of volume.fsuage in libhal-storage (David Zeuthen) - Introduce volume.ignore property, document it, make it available in libhal-storage and make our Mount() script respect it (David Zeuthen) - Add optical disc write speeds (Ryan Lortie, Danny Kukuwka) - Use D-BUS calls for powersaved backend (Holger Macht) Requirements for HAL 0.5.6 "Leave the gun. Take the cannoli." - Linux kernel >= 2.6.15 - util-linux >= 2.13 - bash >= 2.0 - udev >= 078 (using udevsend as hotplug multiplexer) - dbus >= 0.60 (with glib bindings) - glib >= 2.6.0 - expat >= 1.95.8 - popt >= 1.10.2 (optional) - libusb >= 0 0.1.10a (optional) - dmidecode >= 2.7 (optional) ========== HAL 0.5.5.1 ========== Released November 14, 2005 - Fix a few division by zero bugs (Danny Kukawka) ========== HAL 0.5.5 "I want you to see what he's got under his fingernails." ========== 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) - fd.o bugs #4871, #2850, #2121, #3954, #4266, #4644, #2115, #3036(Danny Kukawka, Others) - Major rework of lshal (Pierre Ossman) - Comment out multi-session query for optical discs (Kay Sievers) - Update to from AFL 2.0 to AFL 2.1 (David Zeuthen) - Prepare for 2.6.15 compatibility (Kay Sievers) - Update spec some (Danny Kukawka) - Card reader .fdi files (Jerome Lodewyck) - Look at all netlink messages, not just the first one (Jon Nettleton) - Add --version to hald (Danny Kukawka) - Add some hack to work around broken and racy /proc/mounts (Danny Kukawka) - Add option for using the syslog (Danny Kukawka) - Support 'EjectPressed' condition for optical drives (Kay Sievers) - More checks for if a system is a laptop (Danny Kukawka, Richard Hughes) - Update list of PNP ID's (Danny Kukawka) - Update to volume_id version 52 (Kay Sievers) - Remove non-polling blacklist entry for HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD-ROM GCC-4240N since this works on Linux 2.6.13 (Danny Kukawka) - Handle non-existing add-ons (Danny Kukawka) - Deal with acpid restarts (Ryan Lortie) - Fix fstab-sync parsing (Pascal Terjan) - Work with newer dmidecode (Richard Hughes) - Some serial port support and MMC storage fixes (Pierre Ossman) - Fix build by not using kernel-style data types (Martin Pitt) - Suspend/hibernate functionality for distros without tools (Richard Hughes) - Workaround for some buggy ACPI implementations (Ryan Lortie) - SetBrightness and GetBrightness methods (Richard Hughes) - Various S390 device handling fixes (Cornelia Huck) Requirements for HAL 0.5.5 "I want you to see what he's got under his fingernails." - Linux 2.6.13 or later - udev 071 or later (using udevsend as hotplug multiplexer) - dbus 0.50 or later (with glib bindings) - glib 2.6 or later - expat - popt (optional) - libusb (optional) - dmidecode (optional) ========== HAL 0.5.4 "Never tell anybody outside the family what you're thinking again." ========== Released August 26, 2005 - Fixes to build on Solaris (Alvaro Lopez Ortega) - Detect DVD+R Dual Layer (Danny Kukawka) - Fix hal-device-manager (John 'J5' Palmieri) - Methods on hal device objects (David Zeuthen) - LUKS integration (W. Michael Petullo) - Add defensive measures to libhal to avoid potential segfaults (Danny Kukawka) - Add extra ACPI information (Danny Kukawka) - Fix volume.disc.is_rewriteable for DVD+R/DVD+R DL (Danny Kukawka) - Add new features to hal-set-property (W. Michael Petullo) - Fixup percentage computation for batteries (Richard Hughes) - Updated translations (Novell/SUSE translation team) - Update all GPL license headers to FSF's new address (Danny Kukawka) - Use consistent battery charge units (Ryan 'desrt' Lortie) - Various battery-related fixes (Richard Hughes, Danny Kukawka) - ALSA/OSS fixes (Danny Kukawka) - Tape device fixes for S390 (Cornelia Huck) - Export correct volume.fsuage from libhal-storage (David Zeuthen) - Introduce battery.reporting properties (Richard Hughes, Danny Kukawka) - Sync up to latest volume_id from udev (Kay Sievers) - Introduce system-wide power management scripts (David Zeuthen) - Fix how HAL detects PDA's (Danny Kukawka) - Fix misc audio player stuff (Pierre Ossman) - Integration for SUSE powersave (Danny Kukawka) - Export mmc_host capability (Pierre Ossman) - Bump timeout on detection time (Cornelia Huck) - Detect joysticks (Danny Kukawka) - Fix symbol visiblity with gcov (Cornelia Huck) - Stop sending invalid UTF-8 characters from volume labels (Danny Kukawka) - Handle non-existing callouts in a graceful manner (Kay Sievers) - Various cleanups and fixes (Richard Hughes, Danny Kukawka) ========== HAL 0.5.3 "I didn't ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business." ========== Released July 12, 2005 - hal-find-by-capability and hal-find-by-property tools (David Zeuthen) - Fix some of the bugs from johnp's port of h-d-m (David Zeuthen, Kay Sievers) - Trigger rescan of ACPI objects when receiving events (Richard Hughes) - Fix key for storage.cdrom.dvdram (Danny Kukawka) - Don't use sync as part of the normal mount option policy (David Zeuthen) - Update fstab-sync man page (David Zeuthen) - Fix a bug in hal_property_new_string (Martin Pitt) - Fix --help output (Danny Kukawka) - Detect DVD+R DL media (William Jon McCann, David Zeuthen) - Add empty Solaris backend and fix build for Solaris (Alvaro Lopez Ortega) - Support various S390 devices (Cornelia Huck) - Prepare hald to work with newer udev versions (Kay Sievers) - Unify various error handling functions (Steffen Winterfeldt) - Add infrastructure + tools to populate the hal db (Steffen Winterfeldt) - Fixup MMC storage cards drive type on MMC bus (Pierre Ossman) - Handle case where the battery life is degrading (Richard Hughes) - Make libhal_ctx_init() fail if hald is not running (David Zeuthen) - New translations: nb (Kjartan Maraas), es (Francisco Javier F. Serrador) ========== HAL 0.5.2 "Can't do it, Sally." ========== Released May 12, 2005 - Calculate remaining time for batteries (Richard Hughes) - libhal documentation update (Rohan McGovern) - Tweak default policy to automount 'mmc' devices (Pierre Ossman) - PMU lid button and battery polling fixes (David Zeuthen) - Detect PTP cameras (Pozsar Balazs) - Include script to generate libgphoto2 .fdi file (Pozsar Balazs) - Unmount by mount point instead of by device file (Rohan McGovern) ========== HAL 0.5.1 "Sonny...?" ========== Released Apr 27, 2005 - Teach volume_id about Minix and a bunch of ATA raid signatures and use last label on multi-session discs (Kay Sievers) - Extract certain stuff using dmidecode and populate smbios.* properties and populate some newer computer.* properties - Change sesame to luks (W. Michael Petullo) - Cope with double hotplug events and other boundary conditions wrt. hotplug events (Kay Sievers) - Add some more USB2 card reader .fdi files - Make hal know about Firewire devices yet again - Export info.linux.driver for every physical device - Match PalmOS style pda's (Andrei Yurkevich) - zh_TW translation (chaoweilun@pcmail.com.tw) - Use direct d-bus connection for helpers instead of routing the traffic through the system bus - Several memory leak fixes - Update h-d-m to use Python bindings in D-BUS 0.33 or later - Use new udev feature to read all device file names in one go - Various fixes (Richard Hughes, Steve Grubb, Kay Sivers, Murray Cumming, Martin Pitt, Bill Nottingham) Requirements for HAL 0.5.1 "Sonny...?" - Linux 2.6.11 or later - udev 057 or later (using udevsend as hotplug multiplexer) - dbus 0.33 or later (with glib bindings) - glib 2.6 or later - expat - popt (optional) - libusb (optional) ========== HAL 0.5.0 "The family had a lot of buffers." ========== Released Mar 7, 2005 - Completely rewritten backend code including splitting work that requires privileges into separate processes - HAL daemon should be more restitant to broken kernel drivers thanks to the split into multiple processes - Test suite - New features - String list property type - New device information file features - ACPI/PMU/APM/hiddev UPS abstractions - Not backwards compatible since D-BUS broke ABI (porting effort is minimal though) - Updated list of TODO items providing a roadmap Requires - Linux 2.6.10 or later built with hotplug and uevents - udev 050 or later with /sbin/udevsend as the hotplug helper/multiplexor - D-BUS 0.31 or later including glib and (optionally) Python bindings - glib2 2.4 or later ======================================================================== Branched sometime after 0.4.2 - all 0.4.x release are now on the branch called hal-0_4-stable-branch in CVS. ========== HAL 0.4.2 "Something like that. Tastes the same anyway." ========== Released Dec 1, 2004 - Add blacklist for not polling certain IDE slave drives as that decreases performance - Support for Linux kernels 2.6.10-rc2 and onwards - Only lazy unmount devices if {storage.volume}.policy.should_mount is TRUE - e.g. don't lazy unmount devices we don't care about - Support for IDE Zip and Jaz drives (treated as floppy drives) - Various fdi-parsing enhancements - Don't add 'ro' to optical drives as it prevents DVD-RAM usage - Support 256 partitions instead of only 16 - small h-d-m UI bugfix (Sjoerd Simons) - small h-d-m UI bugfix (Bryan Clark) ========== HAL 0.4.1 "What's that? Chicken?" ========== Released Nov 2, 2004 - Make $(binpath)/hal-device-manager a real executable instead of a symlink to better work with strict SELinux (Colin Walters) - Change default storage policy such that SCSI optical drives are being 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) - 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) - Change default storage policy to use 'auto' for filesystem instead of 'udf,iso9660' - Probe ext3 filesystems before NTFS filesystems - Highpoint ATARAID detection (Kay Sievers) - Fixup detection of Orinico 802.11 devices (Dan Williams) - Portuguese translations (Pedro Morais) - Hungarian translations (Laszlo Dvornik) - Russian translations (Leonid Kanter) - Clarify fstab-sync man page - Fix crash in fstab-sync when no options are given - Change default storage policy to allow legacy floppy disks - Fixup order of mount options in libhal-storage as mount depend on that - Handle missing hotplug events - Change default storage policy to not never use UUID - Don't use O_NONBLOCK in volume_id when reading data block devices - fix fstab-sync clean ========== HAL 0.4.0 "It's origin and purpose, still a total mystery" ========== Released Oct 17, 2004 - Use pamconsole mount option instead of user (David Zeuthen) - Remove fstab-sync configure options (David Zeuthen) - Unchecked buffer access fix in pci device detection (Martin Pitt) - Allow hal euid to AddProperty and other operations (Sjoerd Simons) - Fix netlink packets interceptor such that only packages from the kernel is processed - security fix (Steve Grubb) - Device information file parser fixes (David Zeuthen) - fstab-sync manual page (David Zeuthen) - Make fstab-sync use storage policy properties (David Zeuthen) - libhal-storage C glue to access new storage policy (David Zeuthen) - RemoveProperty requires privileged user (David Zeuthen) - Add prop to computer obj saying if selinux is enabled (David Zeuthen) - Lots of new .fdi-file parser feature (David Zeuthen) - Define new storage policy properties (David Zeuthen) - Check that legacy floppy drive actually exists (From Bill Nottingham) - Fixup {pci, usb} fd leaks (Sjoerd Simons) - Look for BLKGETSIZE64 in configure.in (Jonathan Blandford) - Handle initial hotplug events more graceful (David Zeuthen) - Checks for sysfs path and unprivileged execution fixes (Martin Pitt) - libhal fix for hal_get_all_devices (Colin Walters) - vfat fs detection as the first thing (Martin Pitt) - Fixup cdrom polling to be more safe (From Alexander Larsson) - Detect USB floppy drive by looking at USB if class (David Zeuthen) - Make fstab-sync use msdos partition id whitelist (David Zeuthen) - Dutch libhal-storage translations (Reinout van Schouwen) - Debian support for hal_hotplug_map (Sjoerd Simons) - Require superuser for SetProperty and AddCapability (David Zeuthen) - libhal shutdown 'fix' (David Zeuthen) - SATA disk checking (From Alan Cox) - 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) - LVM2/RAID detection fixes (Kay Sievers) - New libhal-storage library and i18n support (David Zeuthen) - Partition id fixes (Kay Sievers) - Unchecked buffer access fix in cdrom speed detection (Martin Pitt) - USB serial device support (Kay Sievers) - volume_id logging glue (Kay Sievers) ========== HAL 0.2.98 ========== Released Sep 20, 2004 - UUID for NTFS partitions (Kay Sievers) - Fixup --with-pid-file (Tim Gerla) - Volume ID fix for FAT32 label (Kay Sievers) - volume.num_blocks, volume.block_szie - Fix dev,suid security issue with fstab-sync - Use async,noatime for removable or hotpluggable drives smaller than 2 GB in fstab-sync - Symlink device node checks in fstab-sync - Build fixes (Steve Grubb) - Reiser and swap versions - Require .hal extension for callouts - Introduce HALD_VERBOSE that works even if hal is not built with verbose mode. Make logging output nicer with timestamps - Rewrite of device detection code - huge performance wins - Make fstab-sync write to syslog when modifying fstab file - Invoke fstab-sync --clean on hald startup - Export HALD_VERBOSE to callouts - Volume id fixes (Sjoerd Simons) - Fixup symlink resolving in fstab-sync - fstab-sync name computation fixes - Add --enable-fstab-sync configure option - Add info.udi to computer hal device object - RAID probing in volume id (Kay Sievers) - Introduce new callout hal-hotplug-map to look at gphoto2 and libsane usermaps on Linux and tag devices accordingly - Fixup debug - fstab-sync doesn't require storage device on remove - Introduce volume.fsusage and use it in fstab-sync (Kay Sievers) - Don't check for a C++ compiler (Joe Shaw) - Add kernel.* properties to computer (Joe Shaw) - Fix libsysfs memory leak (Steve Grubb) - LVM probing and RAID version numbers in volume id (Kay Sievers) - Callout / Race condition fixes - Set priorities on hal.dev and hal.hotplug helpers so we run before linux-hotplug etc. - SELinux support for fstab-sync - Timeout fixes in hal.hotplug (Kay Sievers) - Respect the /sys/block//removable file - Don't remove mount point entries for devices that are mounted with fstab-sync --clean - 64-bit unsigned integer properties (Jon Lech Johansen) - boolean property fixes (Joe Shaw) - Intercept unchecked ioctl's (Martin Pitt) - Introduce --drop-privileges (Martin Pitt) - Only add -lexpat for hald (Sjoerd Simons) - Ignore duplicate hotplug events - Volume ID vfat fixes on BE boxes (Sjoerd Simons) - Fixup hald.conf.in as I broke it earlier - Force initial poll even if drive is not removable - Fixup HFS+ volume id (Kay Sievers) - Multimedia device support (Kay Sievers) - Use 64-bit sequence numbers and use textual action (Kay Sievers) - HFS+ UUID fixes (Kay Sievers) - Support network device renaming - Rename networking properties to net.80203 and net.80211 - Make hald write the pid file, not the init script (Steve Grubb) - Fix endless loop for broken FAT32 volumes in volume id (Kay Sievers) - Add advisory locking on devices (Joe Shaw) - SELinux fixes for fstab-sync (Dan Walsh) - Fixup volume.is_rewritable for some broken drives (Alexander Larsson) - Fix FD leak (Sjoerd Simons) - Update spec to catch up with code - Add volume.partition.* properties ========== HAL 0.2.97 ========== Released Aug 16, 2004 - fstab-sync: lock around the entire process (seems to work very well now) - use local sockets for communication between hotplug.d/dev.d helpers and hald (fixes d-bus limit issues) - reorder hotplug messages (fixes issues with hotplugging 20 usb devices at the same time (using a hub)) - don't process next hotplug message before device from current message is fully processed and in GDL (fixes issues with usb devices needing firmware uploads and thus will hotplug rem to hotplug add as a new device) - turn off media detection for drives being driven by the ide-cs driver - don't use drive_id or volume_id on drives with media detection turned off (fixes infinite hotplug loop with e.g. ide-cs drives) ========== HAL 0.2.96 ========== Released Aug 12, 2004 - dist HACKING (Joe Shaw) - fix missing detection of optical disc when starting - enhanced hfs/hfsplus detection (Kay Sievers) - make libhal work with c++ - validate incoming strings as UTF-8 (Joe Shaw) - try to reconnect to system bus if disconnected (Joe Shaw) - ethernet link status fixes (Dan Williams) - read vital product data from drives (Kay Sievers) - block device UDI computation enhancements - only return RESULT_HANDLED in libhal if we really handle the message - fix small memory leaks in libhal (Dan Williams) - spec now matches code - remove info.virtual concept - make USB interfaces a first class device object - fstab-sync no longer needs a wrapper (Ray Strode) - handle removable media without partition tables - fstab-sync: add entries for floppy/optical drives - fstab-sync: don't add entries if device is listed with LABEL= ========== HAL 0.2.95 ========== Released July 22, 2004 - Faster hotplugging; fork hack - Moved spec to hal module - Actually build Doxygen docs for libhal - Computer found in city of lost devices (Joe Shaw) - Experimental shutdown on SIGTERM - Use O_EXCL for optical disc detection - TODO update - libsysfs upgrade to 1.1 (Kay Sievers, Joe Shaw) ========== HAL 0.2.94 ========== Released July 15, 2004 - SCSI device detection fixes (Sjoerd Simons) - fstab-sync callout in C (Ray Strode) - hal-device-manager GTK+ error dialog (Sjoerd Simons) - Volume Label fixes (Kay Sievers) - Storage device detection and fixes (David Zeuthen, Sjoerd Simons) - No media detection for devices using floppy drivers, e.g. LS120 (davidz) - HAL commandline tool interface cleanups (Martin Waitz) ========== HAL 0.2.93 ========== Released July 5, 2004 - Volume probing and label additions fixes (Kay Sievers) - hal.dev doesn't slow down udevstart or udev anymore (David Zeuthen) http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-July/msg00261.html - Volume mount detection fixes (David Zeuthen, pointed out by Sjoerd Simons) - Persistent device store (still disabled) (Kay Sievers) - Fix of 802.3 link detection (Dan Williams) - Removal of wireless scanning (Joe Shaw, Robert Love) ==================================== HAL 0.2 "Open the Pod Bay Door, Hal" ==================================== So, I've promised a release of HAL before Christmas, so here goes version 0.2. It's not at version 9000 yet, so it won't do any device configuration (like closing your Pod Bay door device), and it probably never will. That's right, HAL is a lot simpler than earlier envisioned. To get an idea of what I'm talking about, you might want to read the updated spec available at http://freedesktop.org/Software/hal and give the tarball a testdrive. Special thanks to Martin Waitz for patches to package HAL. What is it? =========== HAL is a hardware abstraction layer and aims to provide a live list of devices present in the system at any point in time. HAL tries to understand both physical devices (such as PCI, USB) and the device classes (such as input, net and block) physical devices have, and it allows merging of information from so called device info files specific to a device. HAL provides a network API through D-BUS for querying devices and notifying when things change. Finally, HAL provides some monitoring (in an unintrusive way) of devices, presently ethernet link detection and volume mounts are monitored. This, and more, is all described in the HAL specification Where can I get it? =================== http://freedesktop.org/~david/hal-0.2/spec/hal-spec.html http://freedesktop.org/~david/hal-0.2/hal-0.2.tar.gz How do I build and run HAL? =========================== You'll need recent glib, expat and d-bus from CVS to build HAL. Also pygnome and pygtk is required to run the GUI device manager. A Linux 2.6 kernel is also required. HAL integrates with udev (udev sends D-BUS messages by calling udev_dbus in /etc/dev.d/). You'll also need a recent version of linux-hotplug. The client library, libhal, for use in desktop application, only requires dbus (which doesn't have any dependencies) so both KDE and GNOME people should be happy. To build, do the usual ./configure; make; make install dance. Make sure to install into same prefix as D-BUS, otherwise you'll need to copy some files yourself. Now restart D-BUS to reload the policy configuration files and (as root) start hald - the HAL daemon. You can now start hal-device-manager from a separate terminal. Try plugging or unplugging USB storage or Cardbus (PCMCIA) devices and check out the device list change. Also, try unplugging your network cable while looking at the properties for that device. If you're the advanterous type, you can try to run examples/volumed/volumed.py from the tarball while plugging in USB storage. This example shows how a volume manager built on top of HAL could work. It doesn't really mount anything, but it does print out a line when it would have mounted or unmounted a volume. Obviously, you'll need udev for this. It's also great fun (!) to fiddle around with writing .fdi files for your devices. I've included a single .fdi file in the distribution to match my digital camera. You can also play around with the hal-get-property and hal-set-property tools; the latter can be used to set the info.persistent property to keep unplugged devices in the device list to retain the properties of the device while it is unplugged. Is this stable software? ======================== No way, not yet, at best consider this release a development snapshot. It has been tested on Fedora Core 1 (i386) and Debian (ppc), both with 2.6.0-test11 kernels. There's still lots of small issues I'd wish was resolved before this release, that's detailed in doc/TODO in the tarball. Most of the short term issues will probably be addressed in the next release, 4-8 weeks from this release. Also, important busses, such as IEEE1394, is not supported yet. However, even though the API may change somewhat, I think we have now got the basic infrastructure necessary to start building application and integrating HAL into desktop environments. That was the grand plan anyway :-) Please send bug reports, suggestions and patches to the xdg-list. Do consult the TODO list to see whether the issue is already known.