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

[Robert Love <rml novell com>]

On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 13:41 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Richard Hughes (hughsient gmail com) said: 
> > I am hesitant to add this functionality to g-p-m as this is not a "core"
> > power-management role, and I don't want to turn g-p-m into a
> > "jack-of-all-trades" type daemon... but there is only 2 lines of code
> > added to produce the screenshot attached -- all the libhal and libnotify
> > type infrastructure in g-p-m can be already used for this.
> 
> Well, that just means the libhal and libnotify type infrastructure
> shouldn't be solely in g-p-m.
> 
> 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.)

Sounds more like the purview of gnome-volume-manager.

	Robert Love