From: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 16:31:13 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: news: node_device: remove HAL node device backend
X-Git-Tag: v6.8.0-rc1~86
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2dea6b5435a752fee8e042e893a7d9ba2778ad85;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git

news: node_device: remove HAL node device backend

Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 14f098b1f6..2052fd700d 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -30,6 +30,13 @@ v6.8.0 (unreleased)
 
 * **Bug fixes**
 
+* **Removed features**
+
+  * node_device: Remove HAL node device backend
+
+    HAL is deprecated on all supported OS so there is no need to keep it
+    in libvirt. udev backend is used on Linux OSes and devd can be eventually
+    implemented as replacement for FreeBSD.
 
 v6.7.0 (2020-09-01)
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