JockeyHotplug
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Launchpad Entry: desktop-lucid-jockey-hotplug-support
Summary
Jockey supports printers, Wifi cards, and DVB-T cards, which often come with USB and are hotplugged. Instead of just triggering Jockey to check for drivers once after installation, we bring up Jockey when such a device is plugged in and needs firmware.
Release Note
TODO
Design
- When a device is plugged in which needs firmware, the kernel triggers a "firmware" subsystem uevent.
Add code to update-notifier to watch for those uevents, check if the requested firmware file is missing, and if so, launch jockey-gtk (or jockey-kde in update-notifier-kde).
Check modules which have jockey handlers (b43, wl, dvb-*) for having correct firmware file links in modinfo. E. g. b43 has a wrong one, which needs to be fixed in the kernel.
Implementation
See blueprint work items.
Test/Demo Plan
TODO when spec is beta.