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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:56:08 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add compressed ID database support to (usb|pci)-db
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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