Re: [libosinfo] Don't ignore vendor/device name in pci/usb id parser

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On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Christophe Fergeau
<cfergeau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 02:42:43AM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Christophe Fergeau
>> <cfergeau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:04:06PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> > These values were parsed but ignored using ignore_value(), leading
>> >> > to very incomplete data when the data from pci.ids/usb.ids is used.
>> >> > As generally this data is complemented by <device> nodes in
>> >> > libosinfo database, and as this data takes precedence over
>> >> > the pci.ids/usb.ids data, this is not visible without removing
>> >> > the additional <device> data.
>> >>
>> >> Are you using 'this data' to refer to different data in the same
>> >> sentence or am I getting confused for no reason?
>> >
>> > Yup, my bad, I'll have to remove some uses of data ;)
>> >
>> > These values were parsed but ignored using ignore_value(), leading
>> > to very incomplete device information when using pci.ids/usb.ids.
>> > As generally this data comes from <device> nodes in
>> > libosinfo database, which  takes precedence over
>> > the pci.ids/usb.ids data, this is not visible without removing
>> > the additional <device> data from the osinfo database.
>> >
>> > Is the log better phrased this way or does this need more improvement?
>>
>> So if I understand correctly, you are saying that data from
>> pci.ids/usb.ids get over written by data from database in general but
>> sometimes the same data is not provided by db and in those cases this
>> data gets used?
>
> Yes, that's it.
>
>> If that is the case, I think the log is still a bit
>> ambiguous as the last part/sentence is not referring to any problem
>> but it sounds like it is.
>
>
> 'This bug is not visible without removing the additional <device> data from
> the osinfo database'
>
> Does this make the last part better with the word 'bug' added?

Yeah. ACK with that changed.


-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124

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