[PATCH] pnp.ids

[Pierre Ossman]

David Zeuthen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> No, I still don't think it make sense to distribute this file with 
> hal; the only thing it does, in my view, is to increase complexity 
> since we would need code to open/read/close yet another file. We can 
> already do the same with device information files; we really don't 
> need another format. Do you disagree?

It's a startup issue, so I think flexibility can be prioritised in these 
cases.
As for distributing the file with hal, that was just meant to be a 
temporary measure. When a proper page is set up for mainting the data in 
the file it shouldn't be too much of a hassle getting it included in the 
hwdata packages of the different distributions.

>
> Actually, I've been considering giving the pci.ids and usb.ids the 
> same treatment; write a script that converts the files to a table (.h 
> file) and use that for look-up in hald. While doing that we should 
> change the look-up to use a binary search also or whatever to do 
> better than O(n). If someone got a patch for this, I'd be happy to 
> take it :-)

Is there really a performance issue with this? In any case this can 
still be done by loading the files into memory in a more intelligent 
way. Duplicating the data as header files seems like a maintenance 
nightmare to me. I find the idea that hal needs to be recompiled every 
time a new piece of hardware is released a bit strange.

Rgds
Pierre
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