Mapping form factor

[Kay Sievers]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 17:01, David Zeuthen<david at fubar.dk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 16:46 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 16:35, Richard Hughes<hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 2009/7/2 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers at vrfy.org>:
>> >> No, better don't stuff things into the dmi device, not all platforms have that.
>> >
>> > Then where in the database should this data go?
>>
>> There is no place in udev so far. We can't do that unless we invent
>> some fake device, or global properties.
>
> Yeah, and faking devices in udev seems like a slippery slope, not sure
> we want to do that.

Yeah, it's a bit dangerous.

> Maybe just stashing this info on the DMI device for now is the way
> forward? If it turns out that non-DMI platforms wants something like
> this, then we can always change stuff.
>
> Or maybe it turns out that we don't want something like this at all - I
> mean, you can't really trust DMI data in the first place so it's rather
> optimistic what Richard is trying to do. E.g. we don't want to give out
> potentially wrong data.

Yeah, maybe it dies for good with HAL, and we should not pretend to
know anything like this. Sounds like the best road to take from where
we are now.

Thanks,
Kay