On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:45:45PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 19:30 +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > > Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > This is a never-ending battle. The proper place for such a > > > determination is with the service itself. > > > > Hmmm. On the other hand I do not like the idea to stuff the > > whole machine-type-detection logic into each and every package. > > Which is why you have a library (be it kudzu, hal, or whatever your > hardware abstraction layer library of the week happens to be) and ensure > that *it* can do the probing for you. Then you just have to have the > package know what it cares about and see if there's any available. In the case of x86 laptops, a simple 'is_laptop' script could be hacked up pretty easily with dmidecode and grep. Dave
