On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 13:00 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote: > Jon wants to automatically download drivers for his soundcard. The way I > envisage this happening is: > > 1. UDEV rule merges in PK_NEEDED_PACKAGE='alsa-firmware' > 2. gnome-packagekit/kpackagekit watches DeviceKit for this key to appear > 3. session triggers install if it's not already installed > > Now, the udev rule can be shipped in udev-extras, or even PackageKit. > What we also have to handle is when the soundcard is installed, and the > computer boots. We need a way to enumerate all devices (of all > subsystems) and check for keys. > > Do we need a EnumerateDevices() method in DeviceKit,
There are two such methods already; this one http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/DeviceKit/DeviceKit.html#DeviceKit.EnumerateBySubsystem http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/DeviceKit/DevkitClient.html#devkit-client-enumerate-by-subsystem does what want, doesn't it? (pass an empty list of subsystems) > or should > gnome-packagekit be peeking in /sys? The kernel won't know about PK_NEEDED_PACKAGE and we probably want to keep it that way ;-) David _______________________________________________ devkit-devel mailing list devkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/devkit-devel
