how to tell hald to reread .fdi files without restarting hald ?

[David Zeuthen]

On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 03:25 +0200, Paul Ionescu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What is the right way to tell hald that we installed new .fdi files and it
> should reread them ?
> 
> A "service haldaemon restart" does the trick, but I don't want to restart
> thehald because of the dbus traffic of disappearing and appearing devices.
> 

Pulling out and inserting the device works, though that is a bit
inconvenient :-). 

I'm not sure we explicitly should have a ReloadDeviceInformationFile()
method because you're normally interested in using the merged 
properties when the device is added. 

Perhaps it would make sense to have a Reprobe() method on the
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device object that simulates removing and
adding the entire subtree?

David


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