[patch] Port to DBUS 0.30

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 20:48 -0500, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 20:04, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 19:41 -0500, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> > > Ok, ran into a huge problem with the way HAL handles devices.  It will
> > > take the UDI and use that as a object path in order to be able to query
> > > those device.  Big problem is that object paths can not have any
> > > characters besides [a-z][A-Z][0-9]_.
> > 
> > I somehow suspect that '/' is also allowed :-)
> 
> Actually / are not allowed in object path names because they are used to
> delimit object paths but that is all semantics ;-)
> 
> > 
> > >   Some of the udi's have - and : in
> > > them.  Not sure how we should proceed.
> > 
> > Should be able to fix hald/util.c:hal_compute_udi() to replace
> > non-allowed characters with, say, '_'. Can you include this with your
> > patch?
> 
> I was thinking a better fix would to fix dbus to allow escape sequences
> like in URI's. (e.g. %20 = ' ').  But if you are reasonably sure that we
> won't have udi clashes when converting illegal characters to '_' I'll do
> that.  It is the easy fix.
> 
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> J5
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New updated patch that fixes the illegal character issue and updates
hal-device-manager to work with the new Python API.  Requires D-BUS HEAD
from this afternoon.

-- 
John (J5) Palmieri
Associate Software Engineer
Desktop Group
Red Hat, Inc.
Blog: http://martianrock.com
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