On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 10:00, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 08:56:24 -0500, John (J5) Palmieri <johnp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I would just disable kudzu. HAL handles hotplug printing now. Perhaps > > we should turn off the printing module in Kudzu for FC4. > > I personally have a poor understanding of the functionality split > between kudzu and hal now. > Maybe we need an assessment of the overlap not just for printers but > in a general view. > -jef That would be a good idea. The hope is that one day we can move Kudzu to use HAL's detection code. It was a bit early when I replied before but now that I think about it I remember why I didn't ask for Kudzu to drop the printer detection module. HAL handles hotplug devices but can not handle static devices like those attached to parallel and com ports. We can't just yet assume that legacy devices don't exist anymore so taking it out of Kudzu would have been a regression. We might be able to tell Kudzu to ignore USB and Firewire devices. -- J5
