Re: Desktop Kernel Stuff

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 01:43:08PM -0700, Seth Nickell wrote: 
> The following would be nice for software / hardware integration so we 
> can write nice control panel style things:
> 
>     1) Standardized central interface for getting information about all 
> hardware. /proc is currently a mess and you have to add support for 
> every new kind of bus / device type.
>     2) Uniform notification system when hardware is added and removed 
>     3) User-space mediated autoloading of drivers and such....
>     4) What'd be *really* nice is to have kernel support for these 
> things and a nice library accompanying it that prevents a sane API 

Wait, I didn't read your mail closely enough. ;-)

I have a Master Plan that will work:
 http://ometer.com/hardware.html

Now, we need someone to implement the plan. Any takers?

Havoc
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