Hi Brian, Thanks for your input.
At fact, we are the USB device driver team. We are working on both USB and HAL fields now. Last year, Simon (JDS team member) and I worked out a simple prototype based on Gnome-device-manager by which users can enable/disable the USB devices. The screenshot about the GUI demo is attached. If necessary, we will contact with other kernel teams to move the project forward. Thanks, Strony simon.zheng at sun.com : > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: gnome-device-manager.png Type: image/png Size: 184631 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20080331/12da8e9e/attachment.png>
