From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add compressed ID database support to (usb|pci)-db
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:56:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090930015608.GB10333@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AB83999.1060004@unitednerds.org>
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 04:41:21PM -0700, Piter PUNK 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 -;)
And I'm seriously considering removing it from the usbutils package as
no distro ships compressed ids that I know of.
> > 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.
Why would an installer need an .ids file?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-30 1:56 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
2009-09-30 0:08 ` Lennart Poettering
2009-09-30 1:16 ` Piter PUNK
2009-09-30 1:56 ` Greg KH [this message]
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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