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