[Marius Kotsbak] > Dear Maintainer, It would be nice to be able to specify that a given > hardware is of a specific type and then specify for all of that type > of hardware, a list of packages could be useful. This would reduce > redundancy in the modaliases file and also make it easier to add new > hardware and packages.
For USB, this can already be done at least for the types of hardware with its own USB device class. See the modalias-format.txt file in the source package for details. > An example: I want to add a smart card reader: > > 0a5c:5800 Broadcom Corp. BCM5880 Secure Applications Processor > > and register that as a smart card reader. Does this have its own device class? > Currently the hardware information must be added to all of these > packages. > > Ideally maybe even another indirection layer could be added, to group > these packages into "Smart card reader with Buypass card". My plan for isenkram is to use the DEP-11/AppStream information for Debian when it become available, and unless it got a "hardware class" system, I suspect we will have to live with the USB device class system. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
