[libvirt] [PATCH 2/2] src: remove HAL node device driver

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 05:16:16PM +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
> The HAL driver is not used by any supported Linux, the only possible
> user could be FreeBSD, but the official libvirt port disables HAL
> driver unconditionally which means probably nobody is using it there.

Last time we asked, Roman said he at least tested HAL on FreeBSD to see
if basics were working, so I think we want his agreement before deciding
to remove this

  https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-April/msg00991.html

> Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina at redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> HAL was deprecated on FreeBSD as well and the current supported device
> manager is *devd*.  If there will be need to implement node device
> support on FreeBSD we can add a new DEVD driver or we can use
> libudev-devd project to support UDEV driver on FreeBSD.


Regards,
Daniel
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