Order in which the fdi files are read

[Dan Nicholson]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can anyone tell me the order in which the fdi files are read ?
>
> I ask this, because in recent Fedora rawhide builds, there's a file
> /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/30-keymap-olpc.fdi, which
> does not work if the following lines are present:
>
>      <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.hardware.vendor"
> string="OLPC">
>        <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.hardware.product"
> string="C2">
>
> lshal seems to indicate that the matching should work - and the only
> possible explanation for the matching not working seems that possibly
> system.hardware.vendor and system.hardware.product are being merged
> _after_ 30-keymap-olpc.fdi is processed. The fdi file which takes care
> of merging the two keys is at
> /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/05-olpc-detect.fdi
>
> Does the explanation above make sense ? If so, what should be the
> workaround? Note that this is not the upstream version of HAL, but the
> Fedora variants.

$fdidir/information gets parsed before $fdidir/policy. So, you'd have
to shuffle the files around. I'd guess that 05-olpc-detect.fdi is
probably not appropriate for policy and more appropriate for
information (although I don't know what's in either file).

--
Dan