Proposed F19 Feature: systemd features

Tomáš Smetana tsmetana at redhat.com
Mon Jan 28 13:49:39 UTC 2013


On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:41:38 -0500
Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at 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


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