Smolt: Fedora Hardware Profiler

[Phil Knirsch]

Bret McMillan wrote:
> Mike McGrath wrote:
>> On 1/31/07, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Mike McGrath (mmcgrath at fedoraproject.org) said:
>>> > *Note: this is not LHCP, which is going to be a much larger project.
>>> > Smolt has a much smaller scope and will ultimately (hopefully) be
>>> > replaced by LHCP when it is ready.
>>>
>>> So, the issue I see is that the data appears to be stored as HAL
>>> descriptive strings - these could change over time. Storing
>>> it as vendor/id pairs might be more flexible.
>>>
>>> (Or is this actually done that way, and the display on the website
>>> is what's doing the conversion?)
>>>
>>
>> They're presently being pulled from the hardware object created using
>> the RHN client tools.  I'll look to see what it would take to get
>> vendor/id pairs.
> 
> Ouch.  The way RHN currently deals with hardware is pretty painful, at 
> least server-side; a bunch of us are interested in pursuing something 
> more HAL'ish, drop me a line if you're interested, and maybe we can see 
> if there are points of commonality.
> 
> --Bret
> 

As we'll probably be reusing a lot of that hardware probing code in LHCP 
as well i'd be really interested about what/how we can do that better, 
so it would be awesome if you could get me in the loop. Our current code 
in LHCP is very basic for now (just a prove of concept), so doing that 
the same way in smolt and LHCP should be really benefical.

Read ya, Phil

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