Re: Lothar Project
Enrique Zanardi writes:
>
> It's also redundant with the stuff in our own "libfdisk" library, that we
> use to detect harddisks and partitions. We may try to merge our stuff
> and theirs, but I would like to know what the kernel gurus think about
> that "detect" library. There are a few different implementations of the
> same concept (Red Hat's stuff, Tom's PnP tools, this one, ...)
As this is all purely user-level stuff, I am not sure the "kernel
gurus" have any opinion about it.
The main aim of all these codes is just to search the PCI IDS of
/proc/bus/pci/devices in a database to find the name of the
appropriate linux kernel driver. The code is not that much
complicated, and so there can be several variants suited for each use,
but at least the database must definitely be shared.
ISA PNP is more tricky, as there is the problem of IRQ and IO ports
allocations, but we can avoid supporting it at the beginning.
As regards mouse detection, it would definitely be a must to use a
common library code between the different project, again AFAIK this is
user-level stuff.
Loic
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