Whitelisting no-pm-quirks

[David Zeuthen]

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 23:48 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 18:21 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > 
> > Strong agreement here. Would a small interactive command line tool + a
> > man page work like sketched in [1] work for you?
> > 
> > With this, we could also get the UI power management apps (g-p-m,
> > kpowersave) to notice the file 
> > 
> >  /etc/hal/fdi/information/10-pm-utils-local-quirks.fdi
> > 
> > and ask the user if they want to submit the information.
> 
> What about just coding a small web application with a small mysql
> backend? Easier for the average user to check if the info is known than
> messing around with git and command lines and stuff like that.
> 
> Export to XML (fdi) and static list would be trivial.
> 
> Just an idea.

Sounds good to me; I don't really care how g-p-m etc. gets the info to
us... but I do care that they do :-). If that makes sense?

      David