Detecting exploding batteries, part 2

[Dan Nicholson]

On 9/25/06, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 16:12 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> >
> > OK, I'll create a hal-hwinfo repository. Danny seemed not to like the
> > name, so please post ideas for other names here.
>
> hal-hardware-info
> hal-info
> hal-information
> hal-extra-data
> hal-data-files
> hal-device-info
> hal-device-data
> hal-fdi
>
> I think I quite like "hal-info"

As a complete outsider, I also like "hal-info".

<snip>
> > Distributors are free to update the latter as often as they want and
> > they will probably just ship git snapshots of hal-hwinfo anyway. We
> > probably want all the suspend / hibernate quirks in the latter too.
>
> Squarely agree.

This is worth the price of admission alone. Big +1. This will make it
very easy for packagers to keep up with the hardware quirks and make
it easy to contribute back any new hacks that come up.

Keep up the good work!

--
Dan