Support modaliases defined in debian/control to trigger Jockey
Currently Jockey triggers matching hardware by the contents of flat files in /usr/share/
To solve this, the contents of the flat modaliases file can be moved to an additional field of the binary package and Jockey can trigger off that that field from the apt cache to find the hardware.
Eg XB-Driver-
Additionally it would be a good idea to have a debhelper script (dh_modaliases or so) that could generate the control header automatically.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Mario Limonciello
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- Martin Pitt
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Martin Pitt
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for natty
- Implementation:
-
Implemented
- Milestone target:
-
ubuntu-11.04-beta-1
- Started by
- Martin Pitt
- Completed by
- Martin Pitt
Whiteboard
Work items:
add OSLib API for reading modalias mappings from package list: DONE
extend LocalKernelModu
create automatic test case: DONE
change nvidia-common to read modaliases from Package database instead from jockey files: DONE
extend nvidia-common API to take an optional mapping as a ctor argument for speedup (not really practical from the code design): DROPPED
create dh_modaliases for scanning *.ko or taking debian/
port broadcom wl driver to dh_modaliases: DONE
remove *-modaliases dependencies from jockey-common: DONE
port nvidia drivers to dh_modaliases: DONE
port fglrx driver to dh_modalises: DONE
remove nvidia-modaliases-* dependencies from nvidia-common: DONE
pitti, 2010-10-13: This came up in an email discussion with Mario for OEM purposes, so I'm setting him as the approver. This doesn't actually need an UDS session, this blueprint is merely a vehicle for tracking progress and work items, and allocating time.
pitti, 2010-10-28: Discussed this with Alberto today, who ack'ed this.
pitti, 2010-11-25: dh_modaliases (in the dh-modaliases package) exists now. Please see man dh_modalises for how it works, and http://
