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Topic: Update pci-utils and pci.ids

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curaga

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Posted: Nov. 22 2007,16:18

I doubt updating to current level would cause any issues. Only updating the .ids would work, but I suggested updating pci-utils also b/c additional space savings.

lspci does not recognize the devices by modules, they will be listed without a module even existing based on their manufacturer/product id's from the proc filesystem. So, how could it cause module issues?

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roberts

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Posted: Nov. 22 2007,16:24

It is not just a file.

sbin/setpci
usr/share/misc/pci.ids
usr/share/lintian/overrides/pciutils
bin/lspci
sbin/lspci

What repository are you suggesting or did you compile?

curaga

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Posted: Nov. 22 2007,16:42

Yes, I'm aware of those (except that "lintian" - what is it?).

The one I'm talking about is the official one, http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/utils/pciutils/
Seems 2.2.9 is the latest stable version.

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The configure script will automatically enable support for a compressed
pci.ids if you have zlib installed.

This is why to update

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Juanito

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Posted: Nov. 22 2007,17:31

I compiled a couple of versions of pciutils including 2.2.9. As Curaga mentions, the later versions use zlib to compress/uncompress pci.ids.

As far as I can tell, all of the versions include a utility to update pci.ids over the Internet. This would seem to confirm that dsl can use a more recent version of pci.ids without changing any of the other pciutils-related files or, alternatively, everything could be changed to 2.2.9.

I can post pciutils-2.2.9 if needed.