Exposing the mouse battery status through HAL

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Sergey Udaltsov wrote:

> > Then you need an oracle to tell you that you need mousebatd
> > daemon.  The idea was to be able to find out what daemons are
> > needed.
> Why oracle??? Just put the binary into drivers.d - that's it! Isn't
> that what drivers.d was introduced for? Or do you want to be able to
> execute arbitrary binary anywhere in the filesystem?

*My* understanding is that it's not the best practice to put all
possible daemons there and run all of them so they can decide if
there's something interesting for them or not.  Think of too many
of them.  And think of when the needed daemon is not installed.
We want to be able to notify the user that for best results (s)he
needs to install a daemon providing this functionality.  In a
shiny world, that may be automated by installing the RPM
providing that name on a Fedora system for example, using yum of
course...


> Sergey

--behdad
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