Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752666AbaBJK0Z (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Feb 2014 05:26:25 -0500 Received: from mail-bk0-f43.google.com ([209.85.214.43]:47857 "EHLO mail-bk0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752194AbaBJK0U (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Feb 2014 05:26:20 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [209.132.186.35] In-Reply-To: References: <1378302428-19758-1-git-send-email-teg@jklm.no> From: Tom Gundersen Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:25:57 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND][pciutils] libpci: pci_id_lookup - add udev/hwdb support To: Martin Mares Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Kay Sievers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ping? On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > Ping? > > On 30 Dec 2013 19:53, "Tom Gundersen" wrote: >> >> Hi Martin, >> >> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Martin Mares 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]: >> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/