What replaces this bit of HAL?

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 02/24/2011 08:02 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I keep reading that HAL is going away to be replaced by
> a scattering of separate bits, but I can't figure out
> what is supposed to replace HAL to achieve the equivalent
> in a program I'm working on:
>
> This program recognizes PTP capable cameras that are plugged
> and unplugged from time to time. I get DBUS system messages
> (containing the HAL udi string) on the plug/unplug event,
> and I can lookup things like the USB bus and device numbers
> which are needed by libgphoto2 by calling HAL functions to
> query properties.
>
> So if HAL is going away, what the heck is the official
> recommended way to achieve these same results without HAL?

You are better off asking in the upstream mailing list

Rahul