On 01/30/13 01:08, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Kay Sievers (kay@xxxxxxxx) said: >>>> Realistically, it's new textual files, replacing old textual files, which >>>> are then compiled into a binary file. I'm not sure why there's the >>>> intermediate step of a second textual format, but there is. >>> >>> Because the original text file is a hack and a format specific to the >>> PCI/USB IDs, and makes no sense at all for a generic hwdb. >> >> pci:v00000010* >> ID_VENDOR_FROM_DATABASE=Allied Telesis, Inc >> >> It's not like that's that much more of a generic format. :) > > It is entirely generic. It can carry arbitrary numbers of freely named > key/value pairs basically unlimited in their size. Is extensible, uses > flexible and extensible string matches like modaliases for kernel > modules. Nothing you would find in the PCI/USB IDs hack. > > So what do you criticize here? Still looks pointless. You convert the old-format into new-format, then compile new-format into the database. It's not obvious why you don't go straight from old-format to the database. hwdata package updates would directly show up in the database then, without having to touch systemd. cheers, Gerd -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
