On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 02:52:09AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > Most of the information in usb.ids is now contained in udev's hwdb. First > attempt to query hwdb before falling back on the old file. > > This would allow distributions to no longer ship (most of) usb.ids by default, > but rather keep all the usb device information in only one place (the hwdb). > > This patch introduces a dependency on libusb >= 196. > > Cc: systemd-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Very nice, thanks so much for doing this. I'll go apply it and push out a new version of usbutils soon with this in it. Can this mean I can drop the usb.ids file from the usbutils package? I can't remember where hwdb is generated from, does it rely on the usb.ids file for the initial creation? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
