Re: usb.ids

Well, all of the files I've seen are in the exact same format and 
order.. and look as though they were based on the same file, so it 
wouldn't be that difficult to just diff-patch em together.. but it would 
be much cleaner if this was done upstream.

greeneg wrote:

> On Wed, 11 May 2005, Zackary Deems wrote:
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>> Just curious .. is there any reason to include multiple usb.ids 
>> files?  Right now hwdata supplies one,
>> kdebase supplies another, and usbutils potentially supplies another, 
>> though it appears to be essentially the same as what's provided by 
>> hwdata (hwdata's version is just missing all of the declarations at 
>> the end)
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>> I guess the question is.. shouldn't they all be coming from the same 
>> place? Looking at the diffs of the 3 files, there were some devices 
>> in the one provided by kdebase which were not in hwdata's, some with 
>> different names, and many in hwdata's which didn't exist in 
>> kdebase's.  That just seems to BEG for problems.
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> Agreed. I've been mulling over this for a while now. KDE, USB for 
> Linux, and almost every other hw based project is shipping it OWN id 
> sets. This is VERY detrimental to desktop Linux as a whole since this 
> is makes the hw support across the various distros very inconsistent 
> which only confuses users. I'd prefer to have it be a synced file 
> between all of the major players of Linux. So, this means some thing 
> that likely should be done a t the freedesktop.org level so that KDE, 
> GNOME, usbutils, coldplug, hotplug, kudzu, harddrake, etc. are 
> consistemt.
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