Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Dec 2013 12:33:32 +0100 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RESEND][pciutils] libpci: pci_id_lookup - add udev/hwdb support |
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Hello!
> It does that per process doing that, and that's the problem for how > udev works/worked. The binary hwdb is on-disk and can be mmaped, and > there is no difference between initialization, first, or subsequent > queries.
OK, point taken.
I see that a mechanism for fast lookup of hardware identification data is needed. However, why should such a mechanism depend on udev, systemd, or Linux in general?
What I would really like to have is a universal library for HW lookup, independent of anything else and widely portable. All the hardware data would be provided by other packages -- pci.ids, usb.ids, kernel modules, etc. -- and compiled to a binary format available for instant queries.
Do I miss anything?
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://mj.ucw.cz/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth A half-joke: What is the difference between a cat?
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