[PATCH] Fix support with pciutils 2.2.4

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Tue Feb 20 10:33:58 PST 2007


On 2/20/07, Doug Goldstein <cardoe at gentoo.org> wrote:
> New pciutils is now gzipping their pci.ids by default. As a result,
> libpci needs to have zlib included along with it. I also took the
> liberty of cleaning up the libpci check a little bit so there was not 2
> fail cases.

But is that the whole solution? As far as I can tell, hald isn't
linked to libpci and just tries to open() and then mmap() pci.ids in
pci_ids_load() in hald/ids.c. It has no ability to deal with gzipped
data, AFAICT. I think only the macbook addon links to libpci.

--
Dan


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