Re: polling mechanism for media presence

David Brownell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tuesday 20 March 2007 7:49 am, Alan Stern wrote:

> > I am sorry. HAL? Where do I get this daemon?
> 
> It's part of the hal package, which is included in Fedora and presumably
> other distributions as well.  See
> 
> 	http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/hal

What would an embedded distro use though?  HAL takes up multi-megabytes.
A swapless system, with say 32 MB total RAM, probably won't find that
to be a usable solution ...

- Dave

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