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+description: >
+    Information to enable a daemon to probe hardware based on gpio values
+properties:
+    - name: Name
+      type: string
+      description: >
+          Used by entity-manager to identify which hw was detected. For internal
+          use by entity-manager.
+    - name: PresencePinNames
+      type: array[string]
+      description: >
+          Names of the gpio lines.
+    - name: PresencePinValues
+      type: array[uint64]
+      description: >
+          Values of the gpio lines for which a device is considered present.
+          Choosing 'uint64' instead of 'bool' here for compatibility with how EM
+          exposes configuration on dbus.