From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Piter PUNK Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:50:13 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add compressed ID database support to (usb|pci)-db Message-Id: 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 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. The lspci helps me more than once to look some board and found tips to finnish installation or fix some installer bug (usually some boot parameter or kernel compilation option). Piter PUNK