Proposal: Deprecate portable_audio_player.access_method

[Danny Kukawka]

On Montag, 4. Juni 2007, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> Wanted to toss this out to people:
>
> With the portable_audio_player.access_method.(protocols, drivers) keys (not
> up on the official site, a build of current documentation from git is at
> http://jefferai.com/stuff/hal-spec.html#device-properties-portable_audio_pl
>ayer ), there's no longer really a need to have the plain old
> portable_audio_player.access_method.  Importantly, this key can be outright
> misleading, as some devices can be both (such as Rockbox devices, which can
> use both "storage" and "ipod" protocols), and an application may skip
> checking the portable_audio_player.access_method.protocols key if they see
> that a device has been marked as "storage" in
> portable_audio_player.access_method.  So I propose it be deprecated in
> favor of simply using the .protocols and .drivers keys, which contain the
> same information without this limitation.
>
> That being said, would it then be best to change
>
> portable_audio_player.access_method.(protocols, drivers)
>
> to
>
> portable_audio_player.(protocols, drivers)?
>
> It does still make sense to have it under access_method, I just don't know
> if that's "weird" if there's no top-level access_method key.

Could you provide a patch?

Danny