[PATCH] pnp.ids
Pozsár Balázs
pozsy at uhulinux.hu
Mon Feb 7 09:30:05 PST 2005
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 11:50:16AM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> 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 :-)
NO NO NO NO NO!!!
Please do not do this. I really think this is a bad idea, duplicating
a constantly changing database. Why not just read those files on startup
into a binary tree? Would give the same performance, without just
another duplication/"fork".
--
pozsy
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