Re: Missing file

[linux-os (Dick Johnson)]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 12:08 -0500, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> Linux-2.6.15.4 fails to contain the file:
>>  	/usr/src/linux-2.6.15.4/drivers/pci/devlist.h
>>
>> This contains product NAMES used to identity various PCI
>> devices when they are installed. What replaces this file?
>>
>> The file existed up until at least linux-2.6.13.4 and
>> should not have been removed just because some audit
>> may have determined that it's "not in use." It is in
>> use by vendors which need to convert "Computerese" to
>> "Customer readable" stuff.
>
>
> actually an entirely different file is used for that;
> /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids
>
> which comes from the pci id repo on sourceforge (same as the file you
> want to look at). Distributions at least tend to update pci.ids file
> more frequent than the kernel updated devlist.h...

Thanks. Changes like that make tons of work! Great, there will
always be something for us to do. Now all I have to do is
modify a tool to be Linux version-specific so I get the right
ASCII put into driver(s). The drivers don't run in anything
that has a shell or anything like that. They need to "know"
the vendor-name of some interface chips so the name(s) were
compiled in, based upon OS headers.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.13.4 on an i686 machine (5589.49 BogoMips).
Warning : 98.36% of all statistics are fiction.
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