Using libpci for reading PCI vendor/device/etc

[Dan Nicholson]

On 6/21/07, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> Daniel Drake (dsd at gentoo.org) said:
> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2007-June/008830.html works
> > fine with both compressed and uncompressed pci.ids. It's a much nicer
> > approach than the unzip-in-memory patch I posted earlier.
> >
> > Do the concerns about increased footprint for embedded users matter
> > here, or can this be applied?
>
> 1) you probably want to use the new pkgconfig file in newer libpci
> 2) libpci is (or, at least, was) static only, and doesn't always keep ABI

libpci is still static only, perhaps that can be changed upstream.
I've CC'd the pciutils maintainer to see if he can address this and
the ABI concern.

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Dan