Next step for libpciaccess
Alan Coopersmith
Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Fri Mar 17 07:44:56 PST 2006
Stuart Kreitman wrote:
>
>
> Mike A. Harris wrote:
>
>> Ian Romanick wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> uses and external file of PCI IDs. Right now it assumes that this file
>>> is stored /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids. I suspect that is not a good
>>> assumption to make. What *is* the right way to locate this file?
>>
>>
>> That path is a Red Hat'ism, which might possibly be used by other
>> Linux distros also, but I wouldn't assume that per se.
>
> Solaris: /etc/driver_aliases
Not the same - that only maps pci ids to drivers. pci.ids is the complete
list of all known pci id <-> device name mappings used so scanpci can tell
you what the device is even if you don't have a driver installed for it - we
don't deliver a copy of pci.ids yet, but could easily add one - I'd much
rather that than have to rebuild libscanpci every time we want to add new
device names to the pci.ids list.
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