Opened 13 years ago
Closed 13 years ago
#59 closed enhancement (fixed)
external drivedb
| Reported by: | taggart | Owned by: | Christian Franke |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | Release 5.40 |
| Component: | all | Version: | 5.39.1 |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
Would it be possible to make the drivedb an external file with a standard format that is loaded at runtime? Then it could be published at some canonical url and you could download a new version to use with your existing version of smartmontools. Then you could provide a tool to update the local copy of the drivedb. There are a few other similar tools that do this:
lspci / update-pciids
lsusb / update-usbids
You could follow their examples for file locations and utility behavior, hopefully it wouldn't be too hard.
Thanks,
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Matt Taggart
taggart@…
Change History (3)
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| Milestone: | → Release 5.40 |
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| Owner: | changed from somebody to Christian Franke |
| Status: | new → accepted |
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Starting with release 5.39, reading the drive database from an external file is already supported. Simply build smartmontools with
Then the database can be updated from export:/trunk/smartmontools/drivedb.h or from a future 5.39 database branch.
See also source:/trunk/smartmontools/INSTALL@3061:684-685#L663 and '-B' option on smartctl man page.
It is planned to extend this for the USB-ID table, ticket #44.