Robin H. Johnson wrote:
Heya,
So now this is not a flamewar.
Jakub was originally going to complain at me for the upstream usbutils
adding support for gzipped usb.ids files, but a group of us (myself,
dsd, jakub, leio, steev) had a discussion about it, and came up with a
solution that both
Hello Daniel!
I don't feel strongly enough to make an objection to your commit,
but I think pciutils is doing the right thing,
The question is not if some software is doing the right thing or not
but if our packages behave like they should for our users.
and despite me and Mike putting a
Wulf C. Krueger wrote:
The question is not if some software is doing the right thing or not but
if our packages behave like they should for our users.
There is also value in satisfying and not deviating away from upstream,
as well as respecting values of upstream decisions (such as offering
Daniel Drake wrote:
Robin H. Johnson wrote:
Heya,
So now this is not a flamewar.
Jakub was originally going to complain at me for the upstream usbutils
adding support for gzipped usb.ids files, but a group of us (myself,
dsd, jakub, leio, steev) had a discussion about it, and came up with
On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 11:40 -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote:
When HAL evaluated the usage of libpci the following issues were
identified:
1) increased memory usage, to the point that HAL was not usable on the
OLPC project
2) ABI breakage between patch revisions (i.e. x.y.z and x.y.z+1 were
Daniel Drake wrote:
OK, so having a dynamic libpci is an outstanding requirement for the
patch. I will follow up with pciutils upstream about the current state
of that.
If you had any issues with Martin Mares, I can talk to him as he's my
teacher in one course at the university. He looks like
Doug Goldstein wrote:
When HAL evaluated the usage of libpci the following issues were
identified:
1) increased memory usage, to the point that HAL was not usable on the
OLPC project
I was only ever aware of concerns that memory usage might be high, but
wasn't aware it caused specific
Roy Marples a écrit :
Begs the question why does HAL use libpci in the first place.
2 reasons (that I know of) :
1) to make things pretty in lshal
2) to make writing FDI files somewhat less cryptic
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal.git;a=blob;f=hald/linux/device.c#l1554
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Heya,
So now this is not a flamewar.
Jakub was originally going to complain at me for the upstream usbutils
adding support for gzipped usb.ids files, but a group of us (myself,
dsd, jakub, leio, steev) had a discussion about it, and came up with a
solution that both ends the breakage for direct
