[PATCH] pci.id performance patch

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Thu Oct 12 12:04:03 PDT 2006


On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 11:05 -0700, Artem Kachitchkine wrote:
> That's pretty much what I had in mind, though towards runtime plug-in design 
> rather than compile time. Embedded style is often compile time: select the 
> modules, build and burn into ROM. I can't see why it can't be both.

Right, run-time plug-in is sorta handled by callouts for investigating
the device and add-ons for providing service on the device via a D-Bus
interface. Notably NUT is using / going to use this. 

I'm not entirely sure we're ready to offer an stable API there just yet
but eventually, yeah, that's what I think we should do...

    David




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