On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 20:37 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 20:32, Bill C Riemers <[email protected]> wrote: > > Bill C Riemers wrote: > >> OK. If I need to go and patch coLinux, I will. But what are the > >> correct values? There is no PCI/USB/PCMCMIA device. > > Yeah, right. This is not handled. > > > > This is > >> virtual. Do I need to invent a dummy driver and label it as the parent? > > > BTW. Does anyone know how network drivers are handled in other UML > > implementations? > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-mode_Linux > > They do the same, I guess. > > > Do the other implementations define a dummy bus, or do they fail with > > NetworkManager as well? > > Xen provides a "xen" bus, which HAL explicitly knows about. All other > implementations, which do not provide qemu-like emulated hardware, > will not work with HAL/NetworkManager, I guess.
So how do these virtual devices present themselves? They've got to have *some* piece of code in the kernel that knows how to talk to them, and that piece of code is a driver. That driver needs to get exposed somehow through HAL in info.linux.driver, no? Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
