[Fusioninventory-devel] consistency issues between USB and PCI device

[Benoit Mortier]

Le Ven 11 janvier 2013 0:47, Guillaume Rousse a écrit :
> Here is a controller element:
>
> <CONTROLLERS>
>    <CAPTION>82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4</CAPTION>
>    <DRIVER>uhci_hcd</DRIVER>
>    <MANUFACTURER>Intel Corporation</MANUFACTURER>
>    <NAME>82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4</NAME>
>    <PCICLASS>0c03</PCICLASS>
>    <PCIID>8086:2937</PCIID>
>    <PCISLOT>00:1a.0</PCISLOT>
>    <REV>03</REV>
>    <TYPE>USB controller</TYPE>
> </CONTROLLERS>
>
>
> Here is an USB device element:
> <USBDEVICES>
>    <CAPTION>BCM5880 Secure Applications Processor with fingerprint swipe
> se</CAPTION>
>    <CLASS>254</CLASS>
>    <MANUFACTURER>Broadcom Corp.</MANUFACTURER>
>    <PRODUCTID>5801</PRODUCTID>
>    <SUBCLASS>0</SUBCLASS>
>    <VENDORID>0a5c</VENDORID>
> </USBDEVICES>
>
> First issue: for a PCI controller, CAPTION and NAME elements are
> strictly identicals. I suggest to drop NAME and keep CAPTION only, as
> for USB device.

yes

> Second issue: we transmit PCI identifiers (vendor and device) as a
> single PCIID element, whereas we transmit them as distinct VENDORID and
> PRODUCTID for the USB device. We should either have PCI controller PCIID
> element splitted into VENDORID and PRODUCTID too, or USB device
> PRODUCTID and VENDORID merged to a single USBID element.

i'am in favour of the splitting into VENDORID and PRODUCTID because that
would allow people from the opsi project to use fusioninventory as the
inventory tool for windows installation and inventory management

Cheers
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