udev-ish replacement for hal-cups-utils?

[Tim Waugh]

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 18:32 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> So, one immediate workaround would be to not pass the device ID
> itself, but the path (%p) and just read that value plus "/ieee1284_id"
> from the python program. That's a little tricky with identifying the
> ID at removal time, though (you'd need to remember the quoted one as
> well, i. e. consider that an abstract identifier for the real device
> ID).

Bad news on this front: that ieee1284_id file is supplied by the usblp
module, which we are trying to avoid.

> A more interesting approach is to use libgudev, which provides a
> gobject-based interface to udev. Ideally it'd be easy to auto-generate python
> bindings with gobject introspection, but I never did that before. I'll
> look into that in the next days, and report back if that's a viable
> approach.

There's no need, we are in C at the point we need to read the Device ID.
So I guess I'll have to do it using libusb. (Not sure how libgudev or
libudev would help there...)

Tim.
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