[debian-edu-commits] r78707 - trunk/src/hw-support-handler

[pere at alioth.debian.org]

Author: pere
Date: 2013-01-11 17:08:04 +0000 (Fri, 11 Jan 2013)
New Revision: 78707

Modified:
   trunk/src/hw-support-handler/README
Log:
Even cooler.

Modified: trunk/src/hw-support-handler/README
===================================================================
--- trunk/src/hw-support-handler/README	2013-01-11 13:57:38 UTC (rev 78706)
+++ trunk/src/hw-support-handler/README	2013-01-11 17:08:04 UTC (rev 78707)
@@ -95,6 +95,16 @@
 is either a kernel module name or a string useful to identify the
 driver.
 
+This mechanism allow us to match packages not only to USB or PCI IDs,
+but DMI and ACPI information.  My old Thinkpad have this entry in
+/sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/modalias:
+
+  dmi:bvnIBM:bvr1UETB6WW(1.66):bd06/15/2005:svnIBM:pn2371H4G:pvrThinkPadX40:rvnIBM:rn2371H4G:rvrNotAvailable:cvnIBM:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
+
+Thus the same mechanism can be used to match packages to specific
+laptop models as long as ACPI or DMI information can be used to
+identify them.
+
 The lowlevel handling is provided in ubuntu-drivers-common[3] and the
 GUI is implemented in jockey[4].