working with pciutils-2.2.4

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 18 June 2007, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 15:39 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Monday 18 June 2007, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 07:56 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > > i looked through the history of the file (hald/ids.c) and going back
> > > > to the pre-mmap commit and adding transparent support for reading a
> > > > .gz file via zlib is trivial (since mmap obviously wont work), but
> > > > i'd like to see what direction the code will actually go before
> > > > spinning cycles on work that goes in a different direction and thus
> > > > wont be accepted ;).
> > >
> > > Right, TBH I don't really see any point in using a gzipped pci.ids file
> > > at all; it's a trade-off where you trade disk space for dirty memory
> > > usage and as such it doesn't make sense on neither embedded nor desktop
> > > systems since you're much more interested in keeping memory use down on
> > > both such systems vs. saving around 300-400k of disk space...
> >
> > perhaps, but that's the direction pciutils has gone ... so something like
> > "if pci.ids.gz exists, then decompress it into a cache file and mmap
> > that" would be the direction for hal to go ?
>
> It would need to happen outside of HAL - at which point it becomes
> completely moot to even distribute pci.ids.gz in the first place.
> Frankly, I don't see any point in pci.ids.gz whatsoever - and HAL will
> continue to require an uncompressed pci.ids file until someone explains
> the benefit of pci.ids.gz. IOW, punt it to the distros...

the point of this thread was to get it fixed for everyone, not to tell every 
distro out there that they have to start configuring their packages in a 
certain way in order for hal to be happy

pciutils adds zlib/gzip support, hal uses pciutils, so hal should be expanded 
to support pciutils in all its glory
-mike
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