[Kde-hardware-devel] Re: UDev subsystems whitelist

Kevin Ottens ervin at kde.org
Mon Jan 3 19:45:50 CET 2011


On Friday 31 December 2010 17:25:39 Alex Fiestas wrote:
> Hi there
> 
> In order to fix the "deviceAdded/removed" signals in the udevBackend
> we've to set a whitelist of the subsystems we're interested on.
> 
> So far this is the list:
> video4linux
> processor
> sound
> tty
> dvb
> net
> usb // Media players and kameras
> 
> I wonder if we need to add more generic subsystems like firewire for
> example, any thought on that?

I've been wondering about firewire as well, but so far I don't see any use for 
it, the few cases relevant for our frontend api are caught by udisks afaik 
(it's about storage). I'm not aware of cameras using it in the wild, so we 
should be safe leaving it out.

Regards.
-- 
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