HAL, new things

[Bill Nottingham]

Richard Hughes (hughsient at gmail.com) said: 
> * Video Adaptor support, i.e. a SetLCDBrighness() method on applicable
> laptops.

Considering the wonderful interfaces the kernel exports for this, the backend's
going to be gross.

> * Device firmware request: i.e. if I insert my spiffy atmel 802.11b
> pcmcia card, HAL tells me (dbus signal to notification-daemon?) I need
> firmware before the device will work. Similar if I insert my friends
> NTFS usb pendrive. Also it would be nice to know if I could look at a
> website and get some info about a driver from CVS.

Where would you get the notification that the firmware load failed? Do you
want this code in the udev firmware helper, to send a d-bus signal with
the filename when firmware load fails? Or somewhere else?

Bill