PCI network controllers advertised as bridge should be supported

[Marc Tardif]

Some PCI network controllers seem to be advertised as a bridge according to the class:

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_269'
  info.linux.driver = 'forcedeth' (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer' (string)
  info.product = 'MCP51 Ethernet Controller' (string)
  info.subsystem = 'pci' (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_269' (string)
  info.vendor = 'nVidia Corporation' (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 2 (0x2) (int)
  linux.subsystem = 'pci' (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0' (string)
  pci.device_class = 6 (0x6) (int)
  pci.device_protocol = 0 (0x0) (int)
  pci.device_subclass = 128 (0x80) (int)
  pci.linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0' (string)
  pci.product = 'MCP51 Ethernet Controller' (string)
  pci.product_id = 617 (0x269) (int)
  pci.subsys_product_id = 24582 (0x6006) (int)
  pci.subsys_vendor = 'FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc' (string)
  pci.subsys_vendor_id = 5385 (0x1509) (int)
  pci.vendor = 'nVidia Corporation' (string)
  pci.vendor_id = 4318 (0x10de) (int)

Where class 0x6 is a bridge according to the pci.ids reference file. So, the checkbox udev registry should be extended to look for a "net" subdirectory under the sysfs which could provide additional information that the device belongs to the NETWORK category.

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

I'm closing this bug because it's so old, if it's important to fix then it will crop up again.