oldconfig.c: produce DEVICEMAP//SERIALCOMM entries

[James McKenzie]

Detlef Riekenberg wrote:
> On Fr, 2010-02-12 at 13:00 +0100, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
>   
>> A C Hurst <A.Hurst at sheffield.ac.uk> writes:
>>
>>     
>>> Fixes bug 11811 [http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11811] and its duplicates.
>>> This patch sent some time back (over a year) was ignored/lost in noise.
>>> Could someone review please?
>>>       
>> this belongs in mountmgr, and should
>> be based on the actual devices as reported by HAL. 
>>     
>
> - HAL is deprecated / in maintenance mode 
>   http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal
>
> - DeviceKit is a set of projects to replace HAL
>   http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/DeviceKit
>   The daemon is libudev and the userspace tools where renamed to udisks:
>
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/devkit-devel/2009-December/000567.html
>   
The question now lies in if the Mac porting projects will get libudev to
build and be functional on MacOSX 10.4+.  libhal was not, and probably
never will be because of the architecture.

> Today, the updates for Ubuntu 10.04 replaced devicekit-disks-doc with
> udisks-doc.
>
>
> - HAL Migration path:
>   http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Halsectomy
>   http://wiki.debian.org/HALRemoval
>
>   
Great.  Time to do some reading....

James McKenzie