Dave Miner wrote: > >>> 2. what's your requirement for the GUI DDU? >>> >>> For instance, how will the GUI DDU be called in background during >>> the livecd startup? And how and where to show the notification for >>> the missing driver? >> The DDU will be called via the Gnome desktop autostart. See my blog >> (just written today!) for an intro. blogs.sun.com/jaschwartz >> >> I am wondering if the scan during silent mode can be made more >> light-weight by doing only the scan for devices with missing drivers >> (accomplished using "prtconf -D" and looking for devices without a >> driver for example) rather than checking packages and the other >> things which are done during a standard DDU device scan today. >> >> When one or more devices are missing drivers, a popup notification >> appears on the screen to say that there is at least one device >> missing its driver. The popup notification is similar to what NWAM >> uses when it finds a new interface to attach to. >> >> The add-drivers mode will display a window similar to what exists >> today, accept it will allow installation of a specific IPS package, >> SVR4 package or package from a DU image, and will allow the user to >> specify the location (repo, directory). Please see sections 3.1 and >> 5.4.1 for more details on the GUI DDU. >> >> The spec proposes an "unmount" button for unmounting selected >> removable media. This is useful if, say, a user has two drivers to >> add, each on its own USB stick. After the user finishes with the >> first USB stick, the "unmount" button is pushed to umount it, and the >> user can then insert the second USB stick to get the second driver. >> >> Please feel free to ask specific questions. >> > > This seems like a feature that could be deferred, perhaps > indefinitely. It's relatively unlikely that multiple drivers actually > need to be handled here, and even so, the average driver is far > smaller than any commonly available medium these days, so telling > users to put multiple drivers on one device doesn't seem unreasonable. > Is there some case I'm missing here?
Further more, if we're talking physically removing and inserting USB sticks or whatever media, doesn't hal just handle this automatically? -ethan
