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From: Marcus Meissner <mm@ns.caldera.de>
To: thierry@cri74.org (Thierry Laronde), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PCI] building PCI IDs/drivers DB from Linux kernel sources
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In article <20010730113319.A24939@pc04.cri.cur-archamps.fr> you wrote:
> Please note that in the following, these are remarks _not_ bad criticism.
> Maybe what is found by the script could be of some interest to people
> coordinating the source writing.

> GOAL
> ----

> In order to allow a kind of light detection of hardware to be use during
> installation, I wanted to build a database (for PCI: I start with the
> easiest...) with the following format:

> CLASS_ID	VENDOR_ID	DEVICE_ID	driver_name

> I have decided to write a script (you will find all the stuff attached)
> parsing the Linux kernel sources in order to do that.

Well, that was what I did 2 years ago for Caldera ;)

Howevery this is no longer needed.

Nearly all PCI kernel modules now export the ids they match for in the
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE, for PCI, ISAPNP and USB.

So either read it from /lib/modules/<kernelver>/modules.*map, or 
use the modutils code that extracts this information from the
.o files itself.

You need to compile those, but you usually do that anyway for a kernel
build.

Ciao, Marcus
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