Using libpci for reading PCI vendor/device/etc

[Danny Kukawka]

On Donnerstag, 21. Juni 2007, Daniel Drake wrote:
> 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?

I can only point to: 
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2007-June/008807.html

Before we can discuss this: What are the consequences for performance and 
memory usage (of HAL and in the system) with this patch? Need this patch more 
memory, slow it HAL down, what happen on embedded devices (which may have not 
the lib, but a special pci.id file) ... ? We need to see numbers ... 

On the other hand would this change increase the build dependencies of HAL. 
Currently you can simply disable libpci support (it's only needed for Macbook 
addon code IIRC).

Danny