Re: systemd-183

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Kay Sievers <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's probably not worth to put too much effort into it. We are about
> to make a more generic query-able hardware database with pre-compiled
> efficient lookup interfaces. It will provide additional key/value
> pairs that further classify devices we care about. All this will go
> far beyond the human readable strings the ids files provide.
>
> Just saying, pretty soon, the ids files will no longer directly read
> by udev. We will see how all that will look like when we get there.

That makes a lot of sense. Hopefully it will be similar to the hwids
package from a packaging point of view (i.e. a standalone db that can
be shipped independently from any libs/tools).

Cheers,

Tom
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