On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 11:40 -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote: > When HAL evaluated the usage of libpci the following issues were > identified: > 1) increased memory usage, to the point that HAL was not usable on the > OLPC project > 2) ABI breakage between patch revisions (i.e. x.y.z and x.y.z+1 were > not ABI compatible) > 3) no shared library > 4) the library calls exit() when it encounters an error in parsing it's > own pci.ids file which would kill the whole app using it. > > There might have been more. I don't remember. Refer to ML discussions > and refer to IRC logs with me.
Begs the question why does HAL use libpci in the first place. Thanks Roy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
