Ubuntu likely to abandon HAL next cycle -- is this workable?

[Damjan Jovanovic]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Scott Ritchie <scott at open-vote.org> wrote:
> Consensus here seems to be to try and remove HAL from the archive.
>
> Wine still uses it, so this means we'll either need to lobby for keeping
> HAL or to migrate to udisks.  Does udisks meet our needs?  Will it work
> for a future USB driver?  Is someone working on the migration?
>
> Thanks,
> Scott Ritchie

Udisks has regressed from the portability of HAL to being Linux-only,
what are we going to do for BSDs/Solaris/others?

Damjan Jovanovic