advantages of DeviceKit support

here is a ticket with a better patch (it should not break old devicekit support)
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/9101

tidalf Wrote:here is a ticket with a better patch (it should not break old devicekit support)
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/9101

thanks, i using your second patch from this ticket for some days. and it works very great (upower part not tested).

topfs2 Wrote:So if you don't have hal or consolekit but you have DeviceKit.Disks you'll get DiskManagement with devicekit.disks and nothing in the powerdepartment. I'll take a look at not needing ConsoleKit but for your distro it should work as DeviceKit.Disks but nothin in power.

If this doesn't work as supposed please provide a log (and ticket with me cc'd) and I'll take a closer look.

Hi Tobias,

now since udisks and upower works with my little distro very well and i have switched to the upcoming xorg-server-1.8, i have tryed again to build without HAL support. my problems without HAL was fixed (i think) with the change from r25863. but r25863 must be fixed (i heave made an patch, see http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/9198).

An patch to let disable HAL at configure time (default enabled, automatically disabled if no HAL is installed) i have commited with http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/9200.

It would be great if you can commit these patches to trunk, running without an installed HAL works great here.