Lennart Poettering on Nostr: …additional device metadata, that cannot be read from the device itself. It ...

…additional device metadata, that cannot be read from the device itself. It originally was introduced to efficiently carry information about all those special keys of the various "multimedia" keyboards from the 2000s, but since then grew into a veritable database with all kinds of facts about hardware. The database is typically keyed by vendor/product info. For the automatic IMDS logic we simply maintain entries that match against the SMBIOS/DMI pseudo-device the kernel exposes, and carry…