Re: udev and /usr

[Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>]

md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) writes:
> On Sep 04, Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> wrote:
>
>> Yes.  Any device specific matching should use vid:pid.  How about just
>> disabling the /lib/udev/{pci,usb}-db helpers alltogether to avoid ever
>> getting any users of this info in Debian?  It will always be too
>> unreliable to be useful anyway, regardless of /usr availability.
> So you believe that the upstream maintainers are incompetent and

No, I do not think they are incompetent.  I think they have a hard job
trying to port features from hal to udev-extras without repeating all
the mistakes.  I realize that hal have many users who presumably are
wanting to push all interfaces they use into udev.

> released something which is unreliable by design?

Do /lib/udev/{pci,usb}-db provide any reliable additional information?


Bjørn