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

[YangKun]

Danny Kukawka wrote:
> 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).
>   
Understood. Thanks for the update. :-)

Regards
YK
> Danny
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