On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 04:55:06PM -0700, Brock Pytlik wrote:
> frank Che wrote:
> > James C. McPherson Wrote:
> >> How often will the database be updated?
> > When a new driver is added to the IPS or a driver in the IPS is
> > updated to support more devices, the driver database should be
> > updated. If the IPS could support searching drivers by PCI device ID,
> > then this update is not necessary.
> >
> > Contents on third party drivers in the database is updated quarterly
> > depends on whether there are new drivers or driver updates on IHV
> > websites and OpenSolaris community.
> >
> I'm currently working on IPS search. Could you describe a bit about what
> information you need to be able to search for from IPS? It's possible
> that we might be able to meet your needs on this front.
IPS can already search on a driver action's aliases:
% pkg search pci108e,1648
INDEX ACTION VALUE PACKAGE
driver_aliases driver bge pkg:/SUNWbge at 0.5.11-0.93
The ddu may need to iterate over all the values in a device's "compatible"
property in order to find an explicitly registered alias, but that's not
too complicated.
Danek
