Rethink libdevq

• Student: Edward Huang (qhua948@auckland.ac.nz)
• Mentor: Jean-Sébastien Pédron (dumbbell@FreeBsd.org)

Libdevq was written initially to tackle the problem with the implementation of Mesa, as Mesa depends on udev libraries for some features which are only found on GNU/Linux systems.

This project aims to rethink and redesign libdevq. With greater portability and better APIs, and if possible, to make devlibq a viable substitute for libudev on *BSD systems.

Implementation new features:

• To enumerate devices (video, input, storage, etc.);
• To query devices to obtain information;
• To be able to attach global and per-user properties to devices;
• A udev wrapper on top of this library.

• May 25: Start of coding
• June 26-July 3: Mid-term Evaluations
• August 17: End of coding (soft)
• August 21 19:00 UTC: End of coding (hard)

TBD

* Github