Description of Changes

Type of Change

• New Feature
• Bug Fix
• Improvement / Refactor

Related Issues / Tickets

Some USB devices currently appear without friendly names because hwdb in systemd is not enabled. This change enables hwdb, ensuring that all devices have readable names from fields such as ID_PRODUCT_FROM_DATABASE and ID_MODEL_FROM_DATABASE.

Enabling hwdb also adds hardware-specific properties, rules and device quirks which might be particularly useful for input devices (e.g., keyboards, mice and gamepads).

Checklist

• Clear summary in PR description
• Detailed and meaningful commit message(s)
• Commits are logically organized and squashed if appropriate
• Contribution guidelines followed
• Ghaf documentation updated with the commit - https://tiiuae.github.io/ghaf/
• Author has run make-checks and it passes
• All automatic GitHub Action checks pass - see actions
• Author has added reviewers and removed PR draft status

Testing Instructions

Applicable Targets

• Orin AGX aarch64
• Orin NX aarch64
• Lenovo X1 x86_64
• Dell Latitude x86_64
• System 76 x86_64

Installation Method

• Requires full re-installation
• Can be updated with nixos-rebuild ... switch
• Other:

Test Steps To Verify:

Run lsusb on host and vhotplugcli usb list. Verify that all devices have friendly names.
In the current main, some devices only show their vid and pid without a descriptive name.