[PATCH] pnp.ids

[Pozsár Balázs]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 04:49:11PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> David Zeuthen (david at fubar.dk) said: 
> > 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.
> 
> You could get really crazy and just query the upstream server if
> it's not in the local database, if you trust sourceforge to always
> stay up. :)

If David's concern is speed, then I cannot imagine network lookup would 
be faster then any local file parsing...

Moreover, not every computer on the world is connected to the internet.


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pozsy
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