Re: [PATCH RESEND][pciutils] libpci: pci_id_lookup - add udev/hwdbsupport

[Martin Mares]

Hello!

> It does that per process doing that, and that's the problem for how
> udev works/worked. The binary hwdb is on-disk and can be mmaped, and
> there is no difference between initialization, first, or subsequent
> queries.

OK, point taken.

I see that a mechanism for fast lookup of hardware identification data
is needed. However, why should such a mechanism depend on udev, systemd,
or Linux in general?

What I would really like to have is a universal library for HW lookup,
independent of anything else and widely portable. All the hardware data
would be provided by other packages -- pci.ids, usb.ids, kernel modules,
etc. -- and compiled to a binary format available for instant queries.

Do I miss anything?

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