performance of pci_device_get_{vendor, device}_name() in X server startup
Mikhail Gusarov
dottedmag at dottedmag.net
Tue Jun 8 17:22:29 PDT 2010
Twas brillig at 17:04:59 08.06.2010 UTC-07 when greg at kroah.com did gyre and gimble:
GK> Ok, I'm coming in late, but why in the world would the x server
GK> ever care about the pci.ids file? Why would the mapping from id to
GK> string be needed anywhere here?
Oh, that's _the_ right question. Looks like only for writing names to
log (unless I missed some access to the data structure while
grepping). Well, not really useful to trade for 400ms of startup :)
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