hal: Branch 'master'

[Kay Sievers]

On 2/19/07, Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka at web.de> wrote:
> Hi David!
>
> Could you also update the spec with info about this new match directive?!

Pleas don't add that to the spec. It's a wild hack, that is fine
because we need it now, and it solves a problem, but it's unreliable
and should not be made public. Accessing sibling devices is in almost
all cases a bug that needs to be fixed in the kernel.

Thanks,
Kay

> On Sunday 18 February 2007 23:44, David Zeuthen wrote:
> [...]
> > New commits:
> > diff-tree e94e5d6bbe489a1269d0e2a5152a1a1f167c7674 (from
> > 04ff0ba613b2dc3d9c3ffabac2399d992a8d7363) Author: David Zeuthen
> > <davidz at redhat.com>
> > Date:   Sun Feb 18 17:44:23 2007 -0500
> >
> >     add ACL management for remaining devices recognized by HAL
> >
> >     Ugh, had to introduce a new matching directive to make this work
> >
> >      <!-- usb cameras -->
> >      <match key="info.capabilities" contains="usbraw">
> >       <match key="info.capabilities" sibling_contains="camera">
> >        <append key="info.capabilities"
> > type="strlist">access_control</append> <merge key="access_control.file"
> > type="copy_property">usbraw.device</merge> </match>
> >      </match>
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