Ping? On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Ping? > > On 30 Dec 2013 19:53, "Tom Gundersen" <teg@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> 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
