Using libpci for reading PCI vendor/device/etc
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Thu Jun 21 09:41:02 PDT 2007
Daniel Drake (dsd at gentoo.org) said:
> Hi,
>
> Mike's patch at
> 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?
Also, as written, the patch will cause hald to *exit* on a parse error
of pci.ids. (libpci calls exit() by default on errors)
Bill
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