[fprint] Export fingerprint readers in libfprint

[Danny Kukawka]

On Sonntag, 26. Oktober 2008, Timo Hoenig wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 17:33 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > I would prefer to go the same way as HAL already go for e.g. music
> > players.
> >
> > See attached patch for the SPEC. The new proposal would allow the library
> > maintainer a maximum of flexibility to define the keys the need (and on
> > the other hand it would prevent HAL from define keys, which are may not
> > common or needed for all libs). For libfprint it would generate these
> > properties:
>
> Sounds good to me.
>
> > info.category = 'biometric.fingerprint_reader' (string)
> > info.capabilities = {'biometric','biometric.fingerprint_reader'} (string
> > list) biometric.fingerprint_reader.access_method = {'libfprint'} (string
> > list)
> >
> > and the new subnamespace 'biometric.fingerprint_reader.libfprint.*' with
> > e.g. these keys:
> > biometric.fingerprint_reader.libfprint.driver = 'upekts' (string)
> > biometric.fingerprint_reader.libfprint.support = true (bool)
> >
> > Any comments on this?
>
> No objections from my side.  I'll rewrite Bastien's patch to match this
> requirements.  If I'm not mistaken his patch was not yet included in
> libfprint upstream -- Daniel?
>
> Anyway -- I'll have a look at this tomorrow and post my results (likely
> as a patch for libfprint 0.6 and libfprint git).

Okay, I've commited it to git. Please adapt libprintf to the new spec.

Danny