[PATCH] pnp.ids

[Pierre Ossman]

David Zeuthen wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 18:26 +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
>  
>
>>Here is the promised change of using a pnp.ids file.
>>I've used the same matching system as in the kernel including wild cards 
>>support.
>>The included pnp.ids file has nothing new except wild card matches taken 
>>from http://www.plasma-online.de/english/identify/serial/pnp_id_pnp.html.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>Hmm, I'm not totally happy about this because not all distros have
>a pnp.ids file. At least I can't find one on Fedora. I also think
>that this file will not grow (as everything is PCI/AGP/<something
>newer> based, so what's wrong with the static list we already have?
>
>Also, if we need to patch the list we can always just use device
>information files instead of yet another non-extensible format.
>
>  
>
Well, none probably have it as I created it for this patch. The point 
was to avoid redundant arrays kept out of sync. As an intial step the 
file can be distributed together with hal.
And these ID:s seem to be in more use than one would expect. LPC-stuff 
is still very common and will probably continue to be for some time. And 
those devices almost always use PNP ID:s. So an external file is 
probably easier to keep track of and avoids cluttering up the source files.

Rgds
Pierre

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