Sending an event TO HAL??

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Fri Jun 30 13:12:48 PDT 2006


On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 12:35 -0700, John Galloway wrote:
> When developing sw prior to the existence of hw or drivers for
> hw, it seems like it would be very convenient to be able to
> generate an event to HAL pretending to be the new device (driver)
> ideally all from user space.  Is there a mechanism to do this?

Do you mean create the UDI and assign properties? If you do, have a look
at the macbook pro brightness stuff where the device is merged from an
fdi file with spawn.

If you need the code or more pointers, then just ask.

Richard,




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