Hi all, I'm writing here with the Cheese[1] maintainer hat on. Yesterday I was about to start to port it from HAL to DeviceKit but talking with David Zeuthen I found out that devkit is going away in favor of plain libudev + specific abstractions for disks, media, power, etc [2]. At the moment we use HAL to detect available v4l devices, get the api version they support and exclude the ones with no capture capability. All this stuff as far as I can tell is provided by hald video4linux prober [3]. It seems that, with HAL going away sooner or later, we need a new place for this probing. Probably a dedicated Devicekit-video thing would be overengineered for a simple task like this, so udev-extras should be the new place for it. Is there anyone working or willing to work on it? I could probably provide a patch myself but I don't really know anything about udev internals and it will take me more than the time really needed for such a simple task (btw, if you want to point me where to look in the source tree I could take a look at it). Being honest I'm not so sure I will use libudev, I'm currently looking for a way to do the device probing directly from gstreamer, but it would be nice to preserve that v4l probing stuff somewhere with HAL going away (furthermore, I doubt we're the only users of that prober). Best Regards, Filippo 1. http://projects.gnome.org/cheese/ 2. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/devkit-devel/2009-April/000140.html 3. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/hal/tree/hald/linux/probing/probe-video4linux.c -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
