[Buildroot] [PATCH] libpciaccess: add dependency on hwdata

[Carlos Santos <casantos@datacom.ind.br>]

> From: "Peter Korsgaard" <peter@korsgaard.com>
> To: "Carlos Santos" <casantos@datacom.ind.br>
> Cc: "buildroot" <buildroot@buildroot.org>, "Bernd Kuhls" <bernd.kuhls@t-online.de>
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2018 11:05:17 AM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] libpciaccess: add dependency on hwdata

>>>>>> "Carlos" == Carlos Santos <casantos@datacom.ind.br> writes:
> 
> > libpciaccess requires /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids (or pci.ids.gz, if
> > compiled with zlib support). That file is provided by the hwdata
> > package, so add it as a run-time dependency.
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Carlos Santos <casantos@datacom.ind.br>
> 
> Is this really a hard dependency? Looking at src/common_device_name.c,
> this seems to only be used in populate_vendor(), which just returns
> without error if the file cannot be opened.
> 
> --
> Bye, Peter Korsgaard

It is required by libvirt[1] to show device names when we use virtual
machine manager to add hardware via PCI passthrough, otherwise only
the PCI bus information (slot, port, function) is shown.

1. https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/841613/

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