DeviceManagerSpec
Revision 1 as of 2006-11-10 23:25:32
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Launchpad entry: https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/driver-device-manager
Packages affected: hal-device-manager
Summary
Rationale
Use cases
Scope
Design
- Ability to disable a device (using unbind in sysfs).
- Use udev rules to apply configuration.
- New PCI ID's forced for drivers.
- (low prio): Allow user to set params for modules.
- Allow user to select driver for device in the case of multiple drivers being available. Issues with this, we cannot address.
- Disabling USB (ehci)2.0.
- Pseudo drivers.
- NIC bonding GUI.
- Some features can be for Google Summer of Code.
Implementation
Code
Data preservation and migration
Unresolved issues