Re: usbutils 0.81 release

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:48, Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 20:45, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 01:38, Mike Frysinger wrote:

>>> guess i'll have to rewrite it to parse the .ko modules directly like
>>> the usbmap is generated now
>>
>> Can't you use the modules.aliases file? That should stay around and
>> there should be the same information contained.
>
> should be fine if it's going to be sticking around
>
> any comments on the attached file ?  in theory, it could be easily
> extended for pci and other busses ...

Hmm, you still use the map files? I meant if you could use:
  /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.alias

The map files are already gone on some distros and will no longer be
around in the future.

Thanks,
Kay