On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm aware of at least half a dozen programs and daemons that read and > parse /usr/share/hwdata/pnp.ids to convert PNP_IDS to actual vendor > names. Although this file will be in hot cache at login, it does seem > a waste of a lot of duplicated parsing and hashing code. I'm aware the > PNP_ID database is used in the hwdb, and hashed in an efficient way. > I'm wondering if external applications (like gnome-settings-daemon) > could use the data there.
Sure, that's what the hwdb is there for. Parsing the potentially huge old sequential files over and over is not how things should work today. Just use libudev to lookup the key/value pairs for a given key/string: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/libudev/libudev-udev-hwdb.html An example is here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/test/test-libudev.c#n432 That's what's currently in the db: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/hwdb Kay _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
