Hi Raphaël,
[Raphaël Halimi]
> I didn't know about the isenkram program and I'm pleased to see that
> Debian is at last providing such a tool to help people to get the best
> from their hardware, and I have carefully read your e-mail but still, I
> have some questions that I'd like to ask you.
Of course.
> The first question that comes to my mind is about the way you used
> globbing in this modalias line. What exactly does a "*" globs ?
Think of it case statement in a shell script.
Ie similar to this:
case "$modline" in
dmi:*:pn*:pvrThinkPad*:rvn*)
match
;;
esac
The * match any number of characters in the string.
> Would this line:
>
> <modalias>dmi:*:pvrThinkPad*:*</modalias>
>
> work as expected, and if not, why ?
I expect it will work. I expect 'dmi:*:pvrThinkPad*' to work too.
> Secondly, unlike what your snippet suggests, tlp is not only for
> ThinkPads, but works on all brands of laptops, so I'm trying to come up
> with a modalias encompassing all laptops.
Oh, hard. :)
> With information I found on your blog about chassis type, I think that a
> list of suitable modalias lines would be:
>
> <modalias>dmi:*:ct8:*</modalias> ("Portable")
> <modalias>dmi:*:ct9:*</modalias> ("Laptop")
> <modalias>dmi:*:ct10:*</modalias> ("Notebook")
>
> What do you think ?
It might make sense, but I do not know what other modalias values might
make sense. Perhaps something besides dmi info can be used to match
relevant hardware?
> Also, what about "Hand Held" chassis type ? Is it for phones/tablets ?
> If so, should it be included too ?
Not sure. :)
A goal is to only match relevant hardware, so try to keep matches as
specific as possible.
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen
