Get PCI and USB vendor/product names from the "PCI ID Repository" project and from linux-usb.org respectively
Bug #450480 reported by
Abel Deuring
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launchpad itself |
Won't Fix
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
When we populate the HWDB with data from submissions, we get the vendor and product names of new devices from HAL data.
The HWDB client in Karmic will not send HAL data but udev data, which provides only vendor and product IDs.
We can get the vendor/product names from the "PCI ID Repository" and from linux-usb.org:
http://
http://
We need a cronscript (running daily or weekly) that reads the data from these URLs and updates the tables HWDevice and HWVendor.
| Changed in malone: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Abel Deuring (adeuring) |
Revision history for this message
| Francis J. Lacoste (flacoste) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| importance: | High → Critical |
| assignee: | Abel Deuring (adeuring) → nobody |
| tags: |
added: hwdb regression removed: lp-bugs |
Revision history for this message
| William Grant (wgrant) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| importance: | Critical → Low |
| no longer affects: | ubuntu |
Revision history for this message
| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| status: | Triaged → Won't Fix |
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That's actually a regression that occured when switching from the HAL-based data gathering to udev. All new HW gets named 'Unknown' currently.