[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] pmdinfo: check for pci.ids in /usr/share/misc

[David Marchand]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 5:30 PM <luca.boccassi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at microsoft.com>
>
> Debian and Ubuntu switched years ago from /usr/share/hwdata to /usr/share/misc,
> and the former is just a compat symlink now.
> We are starting to get bug reports to nudge us into changing.
> So check the new path first, and the old one as a fallback.
>
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at microsoft.com>
> ---
>  usertools/dpdk-pmdinfo.py | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/usertools/dpdk-pmdinfo.py b/usertools/dpdk-pmdinfo.py
> index 9d5c6369a0..12f20735e0 100755
> --- a/usertools/dpdk-pmdinfo.py
> +++ b/usertools/dpdk-pmdinfo.py
> @@ -561,7 +561,10 @@ def main(stream=None):
>
>      pcifile_default = "./pci.ids"  # For unknown OS's assume local file
>      if platform.system() == 'Linux':
> -        pcifile_default = "/usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids"
> +        # hwdata is the legacy location, misc is supported going forward
> +        pcifile_default = "/usr/share/misc/pci.ids"
> +        if not os.path.exists(pcifile_default):
> +            pcifile_default = "/usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids"
>      elif platform.system() == 'FreeBSD':
>          pcifile_default = "/usr/local/share/pciids/pci.ids"
>          if not os.path.exists(pcifile_default):
> --
> 2.20.1
>

LGTM.
Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>


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David Marchand