[fprint] every time PAM says "UPEK Eikon 2", God kills a kitten

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Wed Feb 1 11:55:59 PST 2012


On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 10:43 -0500, Dan Winship wrote:
> This patch changes pam-fprintd so that if there is only a single
> fingerprint reader available on the system, it just refers to it as "the
> fingerprint reader", rather than referring to it by its specific
> hardware model name.
> 
> (It also changes "Swipe your finger *on* X" to "Swipe your finger
> *across* X", which seems more accurate to me.)
> 
> I don't have an external reader to plug into my laptop, so the
> multiple-readers-available codepaths in this patch are not actually tested.

I've pushed your patch, and another one on top to remove the need to get
a list of devices twice. I'll try and test this on my old Dell laptop
ASAP.

Cheers



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