[packagekit] udev installing firmware? insanity or super cool?

[Klaus Kaempf]

* Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> [Mar 13. 2008 22:40]:
> On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 22:18 +0100, Adrien BUSTANY wrote:
> > That'd be great, really. Your "implementation" seems sane to me... Again 
> > though, we have that name convention... All the distros have to call the 
> > package with the same name. But distros can patch that.
> 
> Well, they could patch, or we could just install the package that
> satisfies a filename, as this should be fairly common between distros.

This still requires to maintain a "deviceid:firmware-filename" list.

(open)SUSE kernel drivers publish the module's supported device id
through 'modalias' regexps.
See http://en.opensuse.org/Software_Management/Dependencies/Hardware

Based on this information, the PackageKit backend should be able to
resolve a device id to an actual package name.

Klaus
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