raw device property

[Artem Kachitchkine]

Kay,

> That sounds fine, but Linux does not have raw devices. How do we
> add Solaris specific properties to the spec, btw?

For Solaris-specific properties there will be solaris.* namespace. 
However, this is not a case of an OS-specific property - OSes other that 
Solaris have raw devices, and Linux might have raw devices some day. In 
fact, I found this:

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/raw.8.html

What I'm proposing is that "block.raw_device" be an *optional*, not 
mandatory, property. If the system supports and/or configured with raw 
devices, HAL can create this property; otherwise, it doesn't have to.

As I said, the way this can be handled in a portable application is to 
check for "block.raw_device" first, and fall back to "block.device" is 
the former does not exist.

-Artem.