Re: udev and /usr
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 05:15:19 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> From what I can see in /lib/udev/rules.d, the ids files are only used to setup
> the (udev) environment variable ID_VENDOR_FROM_DATABASE
> (75-net-description.rules, 75-tty-description.rules, 78-sound-card.rules).
>
> There are no symlinks created in /dev based on that information.
>
> Given the name of the rules file, it indeed looks to be intended to be used for
> display/descriptive purposes.
>
So, again, why can't the programs that want to display this do the
lookup themselves? Both libpciaccess and libpci provide API for this as
far as I can tell.
Cheers,
Julien
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