Is it possible to create a "fake/virtual" UDI which HAL can manipulate ?

[Danny Kukawka]

On Dienstag, 27. März 2007, YangKun wrote:
> Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > There is no tool to do this (but you can do this IIRC via libhal or via
> > FDI-files). The question is: why do you need this? If there is a entry in
> > sysfs why not let HAL detect the device instead of add a fake device?
> > What is the reason/for what do you need this device/ is there really
> > something in sysfs?
>
> Thanks very much for your reply :-)
>
> The reason I want to create a fake UDI is because : HAL can not
> recognize IBM's VIO(virtual I/O) devices(like virtual
> NIC/disks/cdrom-drives) on IBM's pSeries LPAR.

HAL can/should. SUSE and IBM are already working on this (support vio bus 
devices).

Danny