USB CDC ACM modems proliferation in 10-modem.fdi - please stop

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 18:49 +0200, Alex Kanavin wrote:
> 2008/11/7 Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com>:
> > Right, that would certainly be cool to have. However, the patch isn't
> > even applied in upstream trunk hal, let alone made it to stable distro
> > releases (which are regularly updated with new hal-infos). Thus I
> > think for the time being we should continue to add those.
> >
> > I assume these entries in hal-info will work with a hal which has that
> > prober. It needs to be backwards compatible, otherwise we'd need to
> > fork hal-info, which should really be avoided.
> 
> Sure, that's ok. I just want to point out that the number of just the
> Nokia models is huge and growing:
> http://www.forum.nokia.com/devices/matrix_all_1.html
> and the corresponding list in hal-info will always lag behind.
> 
> After the prober is integrated, we should probably review which
> products could be dropped from hal-info.

The prober will be going into a udev-extras repo on git.kernel.org which
Kay just created.  It'll be a udev prober.  There will be a HAL callout
to read the udev database and transform the probed values into device
attributes.

Dan