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[bug#54069] [PATCH 0/2] gnu: pciutils: Unbundle pci.ids and use latest.
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Brendan Tildesley |
Subject: |
[bug#54069] [PATCH 0/2] gnu: pciutils: Unbundle pci.ids and use latest. |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Feb 2022 09:40:25 +0100 (CET) |
> On 02/21/2022 8:40 PM Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Brendan Tildesley <mail@brendan.scot> writes:
...
> It seems to me perhaps a more proper fix would be to have hwdata used as
> an input, replacing the bundled copy of the pci.ids file file, and then
> letting pciutils proceed as usual? Disabling compression makes the
> database about 4.3 times larger (1.2 MiB instead of 0.273 MiB).
>
I mistakenly thought they were not gzip'd in the first place.
Should we have a separate output/package for each of the 3 files, and then
embed their paths as needed?
> I feel like applications parsing pci.ids themselves should probably rely
> on the pciutils library API instead (libpci.so) to retrieve or filter
> PCI identifiers without being concerned with the actual format of the
> database.
>
libosinfo also pulls in its own pci.ids. I searched nix and found there are
several more programs that refer to the files directly.
> What do others think?
>
> Maxim
[bug#54069] [PATCH 0/2] gnu: pciutils: Unbundle pci.ids and use latest., John Kehayias, 2022/02/21
[bug#54069] [PATCH v2 1/4] gnu: Add hwdata., Brendan Tildesley, 2022/02/25