Update on DeviceKit

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Wed May 7 04:42:44 PDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 13:38 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2008, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 03:40 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > > For other subsystems, such as Firewire, audio and input my answer for
> > > this is to, for notifications and enumeration, rely on the core
> > > DeviceKit daemon and values exported by the OS kernel (e.g. sysfs on
> > > Linux). In effect, this is not any different from using HAL today.
> >
> > What about brightness controls
> 
> IMO powermanagement
> 
> > and rfkill devices. 
> 
> Maybe NM?

What's the point of hiding system difference behind an interface if it's
to have to reimplement it at a higher level...



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