camera.* attribute proposal

[Jeffrey Stedfast]

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 16:39 -0700, Artem Kachitchkine wrote:
> > Currently there is a camera.access_method which, afaict, can currently 
> > hold at least 2 values: 'ptp' and 'libgphoto2' where 'libgphoto2' 
> > incldues at least usb mass storage cameras and some proprietary protocols.
> 
> According to the spec:
> 
> http://cvs.freedesktop.org/*checkout*/hal/hal/doc/spec/hal-spec.html?only_with_tag=HEAD#device-properties-camera
> 
> camera.access_method can be either 'storage' or 'user'.
> And there's the camera.libgphoto2.support boolean property that says 
> whether the device is supported by libgphoto2.

yes, but unfortunately the only 2 values that get set in practice are
"ptp" and "libgphoto2" (at least on FC4 and SuSE "10")


> 
> 0.5.4 also includes fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-camera-ptp.fdi, 
> which sets access_method to 'ptp' for USB interfaces:
> 
>      <match key="info.bus" string="usb">
>        <match key="usb.interface.class" int="0x06">
>          <match key="usb.interface.subclass" int="0x01">
>            <match key="usb.interface.protocol" int="0x01">
>              <merge key="info.category" type="string">camera</merge>
>              <append key="info.capabilities" type="strlist">camera</append>
>              <merge key="camera.access_method" type="string">ptp</merge>
> 
> Kinda like what you've just proposed.

nod, I already mentioned this in my mail :)

Jeff