hwids

Combined hardware identification databases

This repository contain a specially re-packaged copy of the pci.ids and usb.ids files, as well as a copy of IEEE's databases for the Organizationally Unique Identifiers (OUI) and Individual Address Block (IAB).

The two IDs databases are maintained by Martin Mares and Michal Vaner (pci.ids) and Stephen J. Gowdy (usb.ids) through the help of volunteers who can submit them to the two submission web applications:

• pci.ids
• usb.ids

The OUI and IAB databases are two officially maintained indexes by IEEE, and can be accessed at:

• OUI
• IAB

The reason to repackage the files together is to make it simpler for applications to require them, without having to bring in either pciutils or usbutils, that might be unnecessary for most installs.

Updates

The hwids tarball is updated generally on the weekends, and tagged if there are new files available. You can download the tags in form of tarballs directly from the GitHub repository.

udev

Since version 196 and later, udev does not consume the hwid files directly. Instead, it only access a specific binary representation, which is further generated starting from intermediate representations.

The Makefile will accept a UDEV=yes parameter to build and install these representations. Furthermore upon install, the binary representation will also be generated.

License

The pci.ids and usb.ids files are both released under dual-license, and you can choose which one to apply to your needs. The options are either the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later (which you'll find in the archive, in the file named gpl-2.0.txt), or the 3-clause BSD license that follows:

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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    * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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    * Neither the name of the <organization> nor the
      names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
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The IEEE datafiles for OUI and IAB assignments are provided by the IEEE without an explicit license, but are considered in all effect as public domain, as they are simple representation of factual information, which would then fail the threshold of originality test.