[patches] Add dmi kernel class support into HAL

[David Zeuthen]

On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 17:33 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 12:28 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > > > No this hasn't changed upstream.
> > > 
> > > Okay, then what about just dropping these keys from HAL?
> > 
> > No, I don't think that is reasonable.
> 
> My point being, if we think they shouldn't be read by users then why are
> we exposing them in HAL?

That's the point; _I_ don't think it should be hidden from users nor
from programs that wants to key off system-specific data. Others,
however, think it should be hidden. And to that I ask: why don't we hide
disk, usb, firewire etc. serial numbers? And the answer is: it's bloody
useful information; just look at the /dev/disk/* tree for example.

      David