HAL and scanners

[Richard Hughes]

On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 10:30 -0500, Joe Shaw wrote:
> > I don't think so.
> 
> I disagree here.  We should always collect and present as much 
> information about a device as possible, even if they're not yet 
> supported by software.  The only thing more aggravating than attaching
> a 
> piece of hardware and having it not work is attaching a piece of 
> hardware that is identified as "Unknown device" and having it not
> work.

Sure I can agree with this to some level - but i really think we should
only expose keys that convey useful information in this case; for
example:

scanner.is_supported = false

and not have:

scanner.driver = "unknown"

Richard.