0.5.8 goals and TODO list updated

[David Zeuthen]

On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 19:18 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 20:09 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > 
> >  2. have comments about what we want to finish we 0.5.8. Specifically
> >     it would be great if Richard or someone else could look at the
> >     TODO about the VideoAdapterPM stuff - I haven't really followed
> > it.
> 
> Basically we've already got:
> 
> * a pre-populated list of some machines that we can convert to fdi
> matches (using bios version and vendor) for broken hardware. 
> * a really basic tool[1] that can be used by power-users to easily add
> fdi entries to their known broken hardware.

So let's get that tool and list into the hal tree. Btw, the tool right
now uses

 fdidir="/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor"
 fdifile="$fdidir/10-video-power-policy.fdi"

which is wrong. It should be 

 fdidir="/etc/hal/fdi/information"
 fdifile="$fdidir/10-video-power-policy-from-$toolname.fdi"

as this is the designated location for user generated files. 

Perhaps you also want the tool to try to run pm-utils with these
parameters to actually try it out before writing the file... so you want
that tool to be installed into /sbin so users can test it with
init=/bin/bash from grub in case they go hunting for broken drivers.

Just a suggestion.

> The biggest problem with using that tool or adding the pre-populated
> list is that they require installed versions of HAL master and pm-utils
> HEAD.

That's fine, I want 0.5.8 to depend on a released version of pm-utils.
Which may be a little chicken and egg since you want pm-utils to depend
on a released version of HAL :-). 

However, since pm-utils should be able to work without hald being
available (and the dependency should be optional), I say you should
release first.. certainly any changes you need in HAL, I'm ready to make
them :-)

What do you think?

    David