From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:03:11 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add compressed ID database support to (usb|pci)-db Message-Id: <20090930000311.GA12432@tango.0pointer.de> List-Id: References: <4AB83999.1060004@unitednerds.org> In-Reply-To: <4AB83999.1060004@unitednerds.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.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 -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4