From: Luca Boccassi <luca.bocca...@microsoft.com>
Debian and Ubuntu switched years ago from /usr/share/hwdata to /usr/share/misc,
and the former is just a compat symlink now.
We are starting to get bug reports to nudge us into changing.
So check the new path first, and the old one as a fallback.
Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.bocca...@microsoft.com>
---
usertools/dpdk-pmdinfo.py | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/usertools/dpdk-pmdinfo.py b/usertools/dpdk-pmdinfo.py
index 9d5c6369a0..12f20735e0 100755
--- a/usertools/dpdk-pmdinfo.py
+++ b/usertools/dpdk-pmdinfo.py
@@ -561,7 +561,10 @@ def main(stream=None):
pcifile_default = "./pci.ids" # For unknown OS's assume local file
if platform.system() == 'Linux':
- pcifile_default = "/usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids"
+ # hwdata is the legacy location, misc is supported going forward
+ pcifile_default = "/usr/share/misc/pci.ids"
+ if not os.path.exists(pcifile_default):
+ pcifile_default = "/usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids"
elif platform.system() == 'FreeBSD':
pcifile_default = "/usr/local/share/pciids/pci.ids"
if not os.path.exists(pcifile_default):
--
2.20.1
