On Jun 8, 2010, at 2:47 PM, Mikhail Gusarov wrote:
Twas brillig at 14:26:32 08.06.2010 UTC-07 when
[email protected]
did gyre and gimble:
RB> I'd like advice/opinions on which of these might be the most
eagerly
RB> embraced (or at any rate, least vigorously opposed :-) ), or
whether
RB> there's a better idea I've overlooked.
The Right Thing that immediately comes to mind is fixing libpciaccess
internals to be able to read data from saner (indexed,
string-compressed, with common strings merged for different PCI ids)
file format to avoid problem with linear search altogether. Given
simplicity of data format it should be nearly trivial task.
I've considered this, too. I think it's substantially more work, and
I'd worry that the cost/benefit ratio wasn't very good. I suspect the
best way to thread the needle would include fiddling with the "pciutils"
package that provides the "pci.ids" file. I'd be interested in hearing
if you know something about why the cost is more worth it, because I
agree that this is technically the "right" way to do it.
--
http://fossarchy.blogspot.com/
-- jrb
_______________________________________________
[email protected]: X.Org development
Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel
Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
