Accessing remote devices

[Brad Hards]

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On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 03:05 am, Robert Love wrote:
> The question is, how does HAL know about the remote devices.  One
> suggestion Joe and I offered was to have whatever low-level remote
> device discovery daemon the thin client runs simply send out D-BUS
> messages about the new devices.  E.g., very little additional code on
> HAL's part.
I think it might be better to bridge HAL (or perhaps at the D-BUS level?) to 
an existing, working, secure, well-designed service discovery system. Lots of 
people have done service discovery, mostly not very well. Normal complaints 
are that the service discovery system doesn't provide the right level of 
functionality, or that it causes way to much network traffic.

I suggest Service Location Protocol v2 (RFC2608, RFC2609, RFC2610, RFC2614 and 
a few others).

Brad
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