Hi Martin, On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Martin Mares <mj@xxxxxx> wrote: > I see that a mechanism for fast lookup of hardware identification data > is needed. However, why should such a mechanism depend on udev, systemd, > or Linux in general? > > What I would really like to have is a universal library for HW lookup, > independent of anything else and widely portable. All the hardware data > would be provided by other packages -- pci.ids, usb.ids, kernel modules, > etc. -- and compiled to a binary format available for instant queries. I'd like to reach an agreement on this patch, so I'll resend it with the changes we agreed on so far. Please let me know if further changes are needed. If I understand correctly, you are ok with the functionality hwdb provides, but would have preferred an OS-agnostic solution. However, as no such solution currently exist, and the patch adding hwdb support is pretty minimal and self-contained, would you be happy taking that for now, and rather revisit the topic if and when a generic solution appears? FWIW, I made the analogous change to lsusb some time ago [0], so would be cool to get this all done. Cheers, Tom [0]: <https://github.com/gregkh/usbutils/commit/c6282a7a0e20fbb9c56837f055843635a43ba8b4> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
