Udev vs. hal vs. USB vs. KDE -- It's enough to make you weep!

[John DeDourek]

Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:

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>There is very little documentation about the udev or hal configuration
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>This is a ZOO!  What's going on here?
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>Thanks - jon
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The comment I saw in a post a while ago was that "they were too busy 
coding to
document".  Being in the profession I'm in, I'm too busy marking at the 
present
time to document, so I sympathesize with them.  But if no one finds 
sufficient
documentation by next summer, I may try my hand myself, because that "dbus
stuff" has bit me several times over the past year, e.g. see bugzilla 
218776
against perl or yum and its resolution as a dbus bug (bugzilla 218207).

So, I am looking for pointers to more useful documentation about this stuff
is supposed to work "under the hood" than I have seen so far.