Next step for libpciaccess

[Alan Coopersmith]

Stuart Kreitman wrote:
> 
> 
> Mike A. Harris wrote:
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>> Ian Romanick wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> uses and external file of PCI IDs.  Right now it assumes that this file
>>> is stored /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids.  I suspect that is not a good
>>> assumption to make.  What *is* the right way to locate this file?
>>
>>
>> That path is a Red Hat'ism, which might possibly be used by other
>> Linux distros also, but I wouldn't assume that per se.
> 
> Solaris:  /etc/driver_aliases

Not the same - that only maps pci ids to drivers.   pci.ids is the complete
list of all known pci id <-> device name mappings used so scanpci can tell
you what the device is even if you don't have a driver installed for it - we
don't deliver a copy of pci.ids yet, but could easily add one - I'd much
rather that than have to rebuild libscanpci every time we want to add new
device names to the pci.ids list.

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