[RFC] Add persistent storage capability to HAL

[Richard Hughes]

On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 00:32 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 04:10:38PM -0700, Artem Kachitchkine wrote:
> > I haven't looked very closely at the code, but conceptually it sounds 
> > like a cache. Which brings up all the standard question with resspect to 
> > caching: how is it kept up to date, how and when is it invalidated, etc.
> 
> hald itself shouldn't read or write this. It's intended for addons, 
> which should then set policy themselves by ensuring that they have 
> enough information available to determine whether the persistent objects 
> are useful.

Sounds sane to me, as long as the addon *knows* the information is still
up to date. I'm guessing we are going to have the same problems with
wireless USB.

Richard.