On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 11:22 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: > Irene: > > Obviously a project which is intended to manage devices needs to > interact with the kernel, where the devices actually live. Although > the reasons you give below are good, you don't give any indication > that there has been any dialog with the appropriate kernel teams to > make sure this project is in-line with their plans, that they intend > to support the needed HAL interfaces, etc. > > > Opensolaris is an open community, there's no policy that projects with > > similar functionality should not co-exist in the community. > > > > I am not familiar about the other device manager project. I was told > > that both the structure and the GUI are different. If this is the case > > I'd say that it won't hurt to have both these projects on opensolaris. > > Has there been any dialog with the appropriate kernel groups to > ensure that this project will be an ongoing success? There has been > mention of an existing Device Manager project. Does this other project > already have the buy-in of the kernel groups? What is their opinion > of having multiple projects with similar functionality? Are they > willing to support needed interfaces interfaces for both Device Manager > projects? What are the issues, if any, in this space?
As I known, Strony's proposal is based on X86 driver development team requirement, especially hotplug devices really desire it. Enable/disable hotplug device is very useful I think. So I'm sure USB guys would like to support. Currently HAL + gnome-volume-manager can already automatically mount USB storage device. But it doesn't seem to deal with other kinds of USB devices. For non-hotplug devices, perhaps we need more feedback. With regard to gnome-device-manager, it has a bit of history. Before HAL v0.5.9, a subordinate GUI tool "hal-device-manager" written in Python is widely distributed on Linux and FreeBSD. In the latest HAL 0.5.10, hal-device-manager is rewritten in C and deliever a separte project called gnome-device-manager. Anyway, personally I like such a gnome-device-manager to deal with hotplug devices, e.g. allowing me to manually unable/disable usb device from system tray, or notification can be popep up in system tray when I plug USB device. -Simon
