Mapping form factor

Kay Sievers kay.sievers at vrfy.org
Thu Jul 2 08:10:50 PDT 2009


On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 17:09, Scott James Remnant<scott at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 16:32 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
>
>> No, better don't stuff things into the dmi device, not all platforms have that.
>>
> If they don't have a dmi device, then they won't have this information
> anyway.
>
> That's like saying we shouldn't put ID_FS_TYPE in block devices because
> not all systems have block devices.

No, it's about HAL' global device properties at the Computer object,
not a block device which can come and go at any time. :)

Kay


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