Using libpci for reading PCI vendor/device/etc

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday 22 June 2007, Daniel Drake wrote:
> The plaintext parsing approach doesn't use any dirty memory or the heap.
> pcilib approach uses heap dirty memory, and memory usage is slightly
> (but not significantly) higher. (I don't know exactly what the
> difference between clean and dirty memory is, so I stop my comments there)

which could also be addressed by making the pci ids code more adaptive ... 
scrub pci_ids_init() and have ids_find_pci() call it as needed

after a timeout registered by ids_find_pci(), pci_ids_free() would be called 
to clean it all out and the process would repeat ...
-mike
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