Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753868AbaBLUFu (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:05:50 -0500 Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com ([209.85.214.53]:47759 "EHLO mail-bk0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753709AbaBLUFW (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:05:22 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [84.208.70.35] In-Reply-To: References: From: Tom Gundersen Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 21:04:57 +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 On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Martin Mares wrote: > Hi! > >> Ping? > > Sorry for the delay, I was alternatingly ill and overloaded with other stuff... No worries. I hope you are better now. > As I said before, I do not like the current implementation of hwdb much (it's > too much tied to Linux, and hardware description strings, originally intended > for internal use between the kernel and its modules, are far from a nice API). > > I would prefer a more general HW identification library and I am willing to > write it, but I have to admit that with my current load, it will be hardly > finished before this summer. Looking forward to seeing that. > I will merge your patches. It's better to have the current hwdb than nothing. Thanks! Cheers, Tom -- 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/