Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Should we use something like libhardware?

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> Found this package: http://www.badpenguin.org/pub/software/libhardware/
> 
> Its purpose?  Well, from freshmeat:
> It provides functions to access information about your system hardware, to
> detect the hardware, and to handle kernel modules automatically. It is able
> to enumerate all PCI devices, enumerate all EIDE disks and CDROMs, enumerate
> all SCSI disks and CDROMs, enumerate all EIDE/SCSI disk partitions, and
> check if a detected device is supported in the Linux kernel using a custom
> PCI database. It can also handle USB devices. The included shell scripts
> 'probedisk' and 'probepart' detect disks, CDROMs, and partitions. The
> included 'scanmodule' utility allows you to detect devices and load their
> kernel modules automatically
> 
> Why do I think we should include it?  So that we can stop having to have
> people figure out which module to load for their ethernet card!  Also, it
> will handle loading the right sound drivers - for those people who want to
> have sound on their Devil-Linux.
> 
> Other choices?  Of course - the program that Knoppix uses, whatever Red Hat
> uses (anaconda?), etc.

I think we need something, but I haven't done any research to know which
one would work best for us.

I like the sound of "shell scripts" in this one, since out "setup"
program is a shell script.  

Feel free to include it, as far as I'm concerned.

 - BS