[Pkg-pciutils-discuss] Re: Bug#328318: pciutils: why not centralize pci.ids?

[Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Matt Taggart wrote:

> Have you tried /usr/bin/update-pciids from the pciutils packages? :)

No, I did't :( Another one I missed. Thanks for pointing that out.

> 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.

Allright then, my argument falls to the floor in that case.

> 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.

I suppose (didn't look into the details) discover, hotplug, udev, etc.
have their own way too.

> 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.

Have a look at the 'hinfo' package. When installing, it offers to
setup a cron-job.


Cheers,
Cristian