[patch] Port to DBUS 0.30

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Thu Feb 10 17:04:19 PST 2005


On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 19:41 -0500, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> Ok, ran into a huge problem with the way HAL handles devices.  It will
> take the UDI and use that as a object path in order to be able to query
> those device.  Big problem is that object paths can not have any
> characters besides [a-z][A-Z][0-9]_.

I somehow suspect that '/' is also allowed :-)

>   Some of the udi's have - and : in
> them.  Not sure how we should proceed.

Should be able to fix hald/util.c:hal_compute_udi() to replace
non-allowed characters with, say, '_'. Can you include this with your
patch?

David


_______________________________________________
hal mailing list
hal at lists.freedesktop.org
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/hal



More information about the Hal mailing list