improving digital camera detection

[Hubert Figuiere]

On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 17:24 +0100, Pozsar Balazs wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 11:08:04AM -0500, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> > libgphoto2 could provide this list as part of the package. We'd just
> > need some code to extract all the information, but I'm sure we can do it
> > as we already provide the list for hotplug.
> > 
> > That might include USB Mass Storage if I'm done with that patch I
> > haven't touched for monthes.
> 
> Sorry, I do not understand you. How do you mean to extract the info from 
> libgphoto? 

Writing a small program that will produce the file. We already have that
for hotplug user-map.

> I think hal should not depend on libgphoto.

I never said it should. Just that we (libgphoto2) could provide an
automatically generated file.

>  And anyway, what 
> all hal needs is a list of usb ids of digital cameras.

That is exactly what I meant to do.

> And what patch are you talking about?

Some patch for libgphoto2 to handle USB Mass Storage cameras as well by
just using the "Directory" driver we already have. Just because users
are too stupid to understand that if the camera is a USB Mass Storage
they don't need libgphoto2 [1]. Nothing related to HAL but the fact that
I'd use libhal to retrieve the mount point.


Hub

[1] I talk from real world experience
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