Develop a real UI Device and Driver Manager
The "Device Manager" really doesn't manage. We need a way, similar to Windows "Devices" UI, to manage devices and drivers. It should allow selecting a specific driver for a device when more than one is available. It should allow for ignoring devices (do not attach any driver), and should allow forcing a driver to be used for a specific device (e.g. using new_id for a PCI driver to attach a an unknown device).
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Colin Watson
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- None
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Ben Collins
- Definition:
- Obsolete
- Series goal:
- Accepted for feisty
- Implementation:
-
Deferred
- Milestone target:
-
ubuntu-7.04
- Started by
- Completed by
- Ben Collins
Whiteboard
2006-11-23: Spec written -- BenC
2007-02-07: Deferred for feisty+1
2008-11-20: Declined for UDS-Jaunty. We will improve the display of the hardware data gathered by Checkbox for Jaunty which covers part of this use case. Jockey covers some of driver management. - heno
2022-12-05: Marking as obsolete -- BenC
Work Items
Dependency tree
* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.
