[PATCH] pnp.ids

[David Zeuthen]

Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> What's wrong with using files with fdi-like format for this.. Hal already has a
> parser for those and it's so much more flexible..
>

Exactly - and one day we can download .fdi files on demand which is 
helluva lot more flexible that getting some /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids 
file updated.

Woow - Sjoerds view is even a bit more extreme than mine!

> But then again, i've got a dislike for data build into binaries :)

These data represent facts; they only *change* if there is a bug. 
Consider it an optimization - parsing XML is much slower than using an 
O(log n) algorithm to look a PCI id table. And there are plenty PCI and 
USB id's :-).

David
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