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 14:39:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090930143925.GA15134@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AB83999.1060004@unitednerds.org>
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 07:50:13PM -0700, Piter PUNK wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Greg KH wrote:
> >>> 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?
>
> Because people wants to use lspci and lsusb to know the hardware they
> are using and both commands search the names on .ids files.
You should not need the id file for USB as the strings in the device are
almost always correct. So you might wish to change your installer to
remove that dependancy.
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-30 14:39 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
2009-09-30 2:50 ` Piter PUNK
2009-09-30 9:10 ` Frederic Crozat
2009-09-30 14:39 ` Greg KH [this message]
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