Le 19/12/2020 à 17:20, aitor a écrit : > > Hi, > > On 19/12/20 15:22, tito via Dng wrote: >> is this a database generated at runtime about the devices of the >> current machine or just a collection of hardware ids/info? >> In the latter case couldn't we let the udev/systemd people do the >> work and use their database? > > It's the second one. > Yep, and this is another issue: since udev/systemd is the master of this database, they can change it anytime; I mean not only the data, but the format.
This is a domain where there is no standard. Even sysfs, the access to which is part of libudev, isn't stable, which is a good excuse for not documenting libudev. But all this is just rant and scare, sorry. -- Didier _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
