On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 17:12, Richard Hughes<hughsi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/2 Kay Sievers <kay.siev...@vrfy.org>:
>> Yeah, it's a bit dangerous.
>
> Yes, I think virtual devices are a quick way back to the HAL mess.
> That's why I wanted to merge the data back to where it came from, so
> to speak. All it's doing is providing a mapping for one key value to
> another, with a DKP_ prefix.

Yeah, and stuffing application specific properties in the udev
database isn't exactly nice too. We need to be careful here.

>> Yeah, maybe it dies for good with HAL, and we should not pretend to
>> know anything like this. Sounds like the best road to take from where
>> we are now.
>
> Then that's a regression. I really don't want to teach
> gnome-power-manager about the niceties of dmidecode just so it can
> choose the default policy in a sane way.

Ok, what is it you need that information for? What relies on these properties?

Kay
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