On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 01:05:31PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: >> > However, hwdb only contains vendor, product, class, subclass and >> > protocol. So if you drop usb.ids the rest of the information will be >> > lost. >> > >> > Maybe split the rest out into a separate file and ship only that? >> > >> > Or is there a way to get this info into hwdb? Kay? >> >> It should work to add some of that data to the existing modalias, >> right? For some things we probably need to "invent" new synthetic >> modaliases to query these strings. We should give it a try, I think. >> Having lsusb shipping a private file only for that seems ugly. > > These are things that are just described in the USB-IF specifications, > (HID table commands, class codes, etc.) and really should not be part of > any "hardware database" as they don't change, and come directly from the > spec. > > I can just move those into the usbutils package, and get them removed > from the usb.ids file, sound good? Sounds great to me, yeah. You are right, I think, the reason we *can* stuff it into the hwdb, is probably not a good enough reason to do it. lsusb would very likely be the only user ever. Kay -- 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
