Could you not have a userspace application interrogate the BB when plugged in? After all, you do know it's a Blackberry (or at least a RIM device) from the HAL logs sent by Edge.
There are also a bunch of identifiers that might identify the specific device: - usb.serial - usb.vendor_id - usb.product_id So it might be easier to do than it seems. Then again, I don't really know all that much about USB HAL, so perhaps these are just bogus settings. Chris. Martin Owens wrote: >> Ah, now I think I understand better what you are thinking. You are >> detecting the BB properties from user space and stuffing the info back >> into the os (via hal) and using, or proposing to use, that info from >> other apps. Am I close? >> > > Indeed, Usability by applications is what I'm thinking. There is (as an > example) an application called gtkpod which manages ipods. It uses hal > via dbus to detect when an ipod is plugged in, yet because of the lack > of information available in hal it has to ask the user what kind of ipod > was just plugged in. (for compatibility I guess) > > At the moment we don't even have blackberry or syncing programs that are > stable yet. But when we do, I don't want them doing the same thing. > > >> If we extend this path, then I guess the most obvious way to access >> the 'data' is via a file system layer that may look like >> >> /dev/bb/pim/various_databases >> > > If you do offer this kind of thing, then put it in /sys instead of /dev, > no point cluttering up the place. Then again, avoid the whole thing and > keep it in user space, put add them as capabilities into hal. > > Capability 'tethering' links into the network manager and uses a general > schema for phone tethering. > > Capability 'databases' provides ways to access multiple device > databases, although nothing specific about what tables or fields, that > would be handled by the app (such as an open-sync plugin) > > Capability 'mass-storage-device' already works, check it out as an > example of how this kind of thing can be done. > > Regards, Martin > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Barry-devel mailing list > Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Barry-devel mailing list Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel
