Danek Duvall Wrote: > 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 > I will ask the project team to try this solution and see whether it meets their requirement. Before the project team get back with the investigation result, I will mark the status of this project as 'waiting need spec'.
Frank.
