On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 16:46 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 16:35, Richard Hughes<hughsi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2009/7/2 Kay Sievers <kay.siev...@vrfy.org>: > >> No, better don't stuff things into the dmi device, not all platforms have > >> that. > > > > Then where in the database should this data go? > > There is no place in udev so far. We can't do that unless we invent > some fake device, or global properties.
Yeah, and faking devices in udev seems like a slippery slope, not sure we want to do that. Maybe just stashing this info on the DMI device for now is the way forward? If it turns out that non-DMI platforms wants something like this, then we can always change stuff. Or maybe it turns out that we don't want something like this at all - I mean, you can't really trust DMI data in the first place so it's rather optimistic what Richard is trying to do. E.g. we don't want to give out potentially wrong data. > >> This? http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~david/xdg-hostname/ > > > > That's the hostname, not the formfactor... Confused. > > Oh, it handles icons and such stuff for the host, so I thought it > would be a place to stuff the form-factor, which basically corresponds > to the icon, i guess: > xdg_hostname_monitor_set_icon_name > > David may know better. While we could teach xdg-hostname about things like this, it reminds meof feature-creep.. so I'm not sure we want to do that - I also feel it goes against our goal of removing hal in order to have a single store (udev) where device information is stored in a quirkable way (e.g. vendors can drop udev rules to change values, if we were to store this in xdg-hostname it would be yet another place where vendors needed to modify stuff). (Also, xdg-hostname is still very experimental, no-one ships it yet and I haven't got time to finish it (it's item #42 on my TODO list), let alone announce the project to the wide world...) David _______________________________________________ devkit-devel mailing list devkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/devkit-devel