On Mon, 07 Sep 2009, Michael Biebl wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > So why exactly should we support this breakage in udev, again? If what it > > takes is to move the usb and pci ID databases to /, so be it. When compared > > to our kernel tarballs, they're small, less than 1MB for both of them. > > Agreed. Moving usb.ids and pci.ids to / (/lib/hwdata was a proposed location) > seems currently the best solution to me.
Well, the best solution could well be to not do fragile, broken things like using variable (and untrusted) data to set up permanent device ids. So, I'd rather see that one answered before anyone bothers with moving pci.ids and usb.ids around. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
