m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On your part, you could try to understand them instead of attributing to > me straw man positions.
That's a good advice. Thanks. Please help me understand: What is the usb-db and/or pci-db use case? I'm afraid my creative imagination is far too limited to come up with something without help. All the ideas I have can easily be solved without involving udev at all. Maybe someone else has any suggestions? The helpers take the pci or usb vid/pid and look them up in pci.ids or usb.ids respectively, and then add the returned strings to the available udev info as ID_VENDOR_FROM_DATABASE and ID_MODEL_FROM_DATABASE. These strings can and will change over time, so they are pretty useless in rules. And the vid/pid combination is available for the rules anyway. And stable. The only possible use I can see is for printing pretty messages to the user. But I can't see why udev has to be involved in that. Any utility wanting to do that can just look up the strings in pci.ids or usb.ids themselves. Bjørn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org