Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for2.6.19]

From: Gene Heskett
Date: Tue Dec 19 2006 - 11:47:16 EST


On Tuesday 19 December 2006 08:56, Diego Calleja wrote:
>El Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:57:45 +1100, Marek Wawrzyczny
<marekw1977@xxxxxxxxxxxx> escribiÃ:
>> I had another, probably crazy idea. Would it be possible to utilize
>> the current vendor/device PCI ID database to create Linux friendliness
>> matrix site?
>
>I've a script (attached) that looks into /lib/modules/`uname
> -r`/modules.pcimap, looks up the IDs in the pci id database and print
> the real name. At least it shows it's possible to know what devices are
> supported ...

FWIW:
[root@coyote src]# python list-kernel-hardware.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "list-kernel-hardware.py", line 70, in ?
ret = pciids_to_names(data)
File "list-kernel-hardware.py", line 11, in pciids_to_names
pciids = open('/usr/share/misc/pci.ids', 'r')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/misc/pci.ids'

That file apparently doesn't exist on an FC6 i686 system

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