[Pkg-pciutils-discuss] RE: pciutils: why not centralize pci.ids?

[Matt Taggart]

Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn writes...

> The other thing needed would be some sort of cron job to periodically
> synch with:
>
>   http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids

Have you tried /usr/bin/update-pciids from the pciutils packages? :)
You could setup a cronjob to run that.

> That would help enhance hw-detection on new hw.

I don't know how much hw-detection is done with pci.ids, it's mostly so that 
humans can have reasonable strings to look at. The drivers in the Linux kernel 
all have their own lists of PCI ids that they support. I don't know what 
kudzu/etc do, but I didn't think their ability to support hardware was based 
on how up to date their pci.ids was.

Anyway we'll try to keep it as up to date as possible. After a stable release 
happens I suppose we could update via a stable update if needed, but we'd need 
to have a good reason.

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Matt Taggart
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