Update on DeviceKit

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Wed May 7 10:49:35 PDT 2008


On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 12:39:26PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:

> So someone just needs to teach X about using libsmbios on Dell machines.
> Just like it's using /sys/class/backlight on Linux. I don't think the X
> people are opposed to this; certainly ajax didn't seemed opposed to this
> last time I checked.

The license of libsmbios means it's not going to go into X, so it's 
going to need to be some external callout /anyway/. I'm not convinced 
that this ends up any cleaner :)

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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