From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add compressed ID database support to (usb|pci)-db
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:03:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090930000311.GA12432@tango.0pointer.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AB83999.1060004@unitednerds.org>
On Tue, 29.09.09 16:41, Piter PUNK (piterpunk@slackware.com) wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> >Patch looks mstly good. However after discussing this a little with
> >Kay we'd prefer if we could do without the macro orgy and just depend
> >unconditionally on zlib. Given that this is in extras this should not
> >be a problem.
>
> The macro orgy is from usb-utils code -;)
>
> >Is there actually a distribution that uses a compressed pci.ids file?
>
> Slackware uses it on installer but the udev use there is very
> restrict.
AFAIK currently the data generated by usb-db/pci-db is used only by
PulseAudio, NetworkManager and ModemManager. I am not sure how either
of these would matter during initialization.
Lennart
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-30 0:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-22 2:42 [PATCH] Add compressed ID database support to (usb|pci)-db Piter PUNK
2009-09-22 22:28 ` Ozan Çağlayan
2009-09-23 4:33 ` Piter PUNK
2009-09-29 22:48 ` Lennart Poettering
2009-09-29 23:04 ` David Zeuthen
2009-09-29 23:31 ` Lennart Poettering
2009-09-29 23:41 ` Piter PUNK
2009-09-29 23:43 ` Piter PUNK
2009-09-30 0:03 ` Lennart Poettering [this message]
2009-09-30 0:08 ` Lennart Poettering
2009-09-30 1:16 ` Piter PUNK
2009-09-30 1:56 ` Greg KH
2009-09-30 2:50 ` Piter PUNK
2009-09-30 9:10 ` Frederic Crozat
2009-09-30 14:39 ` Greg KH
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