On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 05:38:27AM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: >> Actually you and I both missed something important here: The libosinfo >> db doesn't just come from libosinfo. We allow downstream and apps to >> add to the DB. They can as well add new device drivers. > > Currently install scripts only support one format, so there is not much > point for downstream to add a driver in an unsupported format. 1. With my patches, winxp will support one format for preinstall drivers and another for postinstall. 2. How do apps find out which format is supported if they want to add more drivers? Currently, only by looking at the scripts themselves (which is more like asking them to read the source). It would definitely be desirable to have a simple API like this to query such info. > I don't even > know if you can append easily information to an existing OS (as opposed to > overwriting an existing OS) to add a driver while keeping the existing > instal script. Its pretty easy but even if its not, that is pretty irreverent. The relevant fact is that we support it. If its not easy, we can talk about it in another thread. > Adding another driver format requires patching libosinfo (schema/parsing > changes), so we'll know about it if that's needed, and then we can think > talk again about this API in light of this new format. That is also not true. Any part of the DB can be extended, including addition of scripts and OSs. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 _______________________________________________ Libosinfo mailing list Libosinfo@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libosinfo
