[glib] Add a note about handling non-hal backends
- From: Matthias Clasen <matthiasc src gnome org>
- To: svn-commits-list gnome org
- Subject: [glib] Add a note about handling non-hal backends
- Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:10:36 -0400 (EDT)
commit 2c1dc529e8d9b1ab2d8ccb8abb1efed836584616
Author: Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>
Date: Thu Apr 9 21:34:49 2009 -0400
Add a note about handling non-hal backends
---
gio/gvolume.c | 14 ++++++++++----
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gio/gvolume.c b/gio/gvolume.c
index ef550d8..6e3f8b7 100644
--- a/gio/gvolume.c
+++ b/gio/gvolume.c
@@ -60,18 +60,24 @@
* is called, then it will be filled with any error information.
*
* <para id="volume-identifier">
- * It is sometimes necessary to directly access the underlying
+ * It is sometimes necessary to directly access the underlying
* operating system object behind a volume (e.g. for passing a volume
* to an application via the commandline). For this purpose, GIO
* allows to obtain an 'identifier' for the volume. There can be
* different kinds of identifiers, such as Hal UDIs, filesystem labels,
* traditional Unix devices (e.g. <filename>/dev/sda2</filename>),
* uuids. GIO uses predefind strings as names for the different kinds
- * of identifiers: #G_VOLUME_IDENTIFIER_KIND_HAL_UDI,
- * #G_VOLUME_IDENTIFIER_KIND_LABEL, etc. Use g_volume_get_identifier()
+ * of identifiers: #G_VOLUME_IDENTIFIER_KIND_HAL_UDI,
+ * #G_VOLUME_IDENTIFIER_KIND_LABEL, etc. Use g_volume_get_identifier()
* to obtain an identifier for a volume.
* </para>
- **/
+ *
+ * Note that #G_VOLUME_IDENTIFIER_KIND_HAL_UDI will only be available
+ * when the gvfs hal volume monitor is in use. Other volume monitors
+ * will generally be able to provide the #G_VOLUME_IDENTIFIER_KIND_UNIX_DEVICE
+ * identifier, which can be used to obtain a hal device by means of
+ * libhal_manger_find_device_string_match().
+ */
static void g_volume_base_init (gpointer g_class);
static void g_volume_class_init (gpointer g_class,
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