Re: usb.ids moving around

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On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:59:20AM -0700, jack craig wrote:
> Hi USB list,
> 
> with the recent usbutils release, i noticed the location of usb.ids moving around.
> 
> i find,
> 
> /usr/share/usb.ids
> /usr/share/hwdata/usb.ids
> /usr/share/lshw/usb.ids
> 
> I had earlier noted its location under /usr/share/hwdata, with the
> usbutils .86, its installed in /usr/share; a
> more global scan shows a copy in /usr/share/lshw too.
> 
> would someone in the know comment on this observation to the effect of
> telling me where to find it going forward from here? is the /usr/share
> the future location?

Hopefully yes.  Distros put it in all sorts of different places, so you
might find yours still does in order to be consistant, but we are trying
to get it all sorted out to be uniform.

thanks,

greg k-h
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