On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:41:38 -0500
Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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On Sun 27 Jan 2013 08:54:49 AM EST, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> Announcing various systemd features in one announcement, see
> bellow:
>
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> = Features/SystemdHardwareDatabase =
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemdHardwareDatabase
>
> Feature owner(s): Kay Sievers <kay at redhat dot com>
>
> The udevd service has a long history of managing kernel devices.
> Besides generating events when devices are discovered or removed it
> maintains a dynamic, stateless database of all available devices
> including meta data about them. With Fedora 19 we want to
> substantially enhance the metadata that udev keeps for each device,
> by augmenting it from a userspace database of non- essential
> information, that is indexed by device identification data such as
> PCI/USB vendor/product IDs.
>
This to me looks like it would be an excellent data source for our
hardware inventory provider. We should sync up with the systemd folks
to identify the available D-BUS interfaces to query for this information.
Looks interesting. I'm not quite sure whether D-Bus is easier than
libpci/libusbx but if there would be also more "inventory" data available
from systemd then probably yes.
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Tomáš Smetana
Base OS Engineering, Red Hat