FDI merging framework

[Matthias Clasen]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Scott James Remnant <scott at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 09:07 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
>
>> Do we have any ideas how the quirk and meta-data information store is
>> going to look like in DeviceKit? After talking to DavidZ in Boston it
>> would be nice to have a meta-fdi framework, with which we can generate
>> HAL fdi files and also DeviceKit (whatever) files.
>>
> My principle concern is that whatever information files we have in DK
> are also shared by udev, since it's a pain in the arse to write udev
> rules for one set of logic and FDI for a different set of logic that
> only differs if you wear polarised glasses.
>
> And I don't think udev rules are the right format for that either <g>
>

Well, one of the main motivations for starting the whole DK endeavour
was to unify this.