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@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
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):