Re: [Utopia] Device detection, and firmware request.

[Ikke <eikke eikke com>]

> Realistically, there should be some sort of system-level daemon
> that handles this. Some potential issues to tackle:
> 
> - How to not warn excessively about a device for which no driver
>   exists.
> - How to catch events from coldplug that happen before HAL, etc.
>   is started.
> - How to handle actually finding and getting the firmware. (drivers
>   are even uglier.)
> 
IIRC there was a guy called "auzy" or something alike on
#freedesktop freenode a year ago, might be more, who was working on some
HAL-based solution for this. I don't know whether or not he's on this
list, he might be on the HAL list only.

Ikke