Installing drivers, need new DeviceKit method

[Patryk Zawadzki]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jon wants to automatically download drivers for his soundcard. The way I
> envisage this happening is:
>
> 1. UDEV rule merges in PK_NEEDED_PACKAGE='alsa-firmware'
> 2. gnome-packagekit/kpackagekit watches DeviceKit for this key to appear
> 3. session triggers install if it's not already installed

Wouldn't it be more useful to handle it the same way we handle
gstreamer deps? I mean automated rpm/apt provides for modules/firmware
and matching unknown devices by device ids.

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Patryk Zawadzki