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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
