HAL: camera

[Matthew Mastracci]

Robert Love wrote:

> Just a thought: what if we _moved_ the table to an FDI file?  No
> duplication, just move the hardware management to HAL.  One could
> probably write a simple C program to convert the gphoto camera structure
> into FDI files.

> I think one negative against this is that we don't want hundreds of FDI
> files due to the overhead.  I think that is a reason to fix the
> overhead.

Could HAL just pre-compile the .fdi files into some sort of 
quick-search/indexed binary format in the future (.fdidb)?  Since this 
stuff is only processed at hotplug/initial scan time that might be 
enough to alleviate any potential performance hiccups.

Matt.