[Utopia] Re: [patch] one-to-many HAL integration

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

Hi,

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 13:17 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> I'm trying to write my iriver driver which is not based on the
> usb mass storage driver but I have to communicate with the iriver
> mp3 player using USB commands.  But I want to be able to have the
> gnome-vfs daemon detect that the iriver is plugged in through HAL.
> 
> Currently davidz's patch does not address this corner case as it
> only receives from the HAL dbus channel events where the capability
> of the device is something the kernel sees as a 'disk'.  But the
> capability would have to go into gnome-vfs proper but thats not
> really optimal as you would have to support a lot of usb devices that
> uses libusb instead of usb mass storage.  

My feeling is that a specific tool would be better suited to this than a
generic VFS backend.  That is, support for this kind of device makes
sense in rhythmbox or some HAL-utilizing middle library that can
abstract it away for a lot of similar devices.

Joe