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SubjectRe: [PATCH] PCI vendor and device strings in sysfs

> Here is a patch against 2.6.0-test1 to display PCI vendor and
> device strings in sysfs.
>
> At present, the PCI "name" attribute has a length restriction
> (DEVICE_NAME_SIZE) within which it tries to accomodate the vendor
> and device strings, leading to, in most cases, truncation of one
> or both strings.
>
> This patch alleviates the issue by creating the vendor_name and
> device_name attributes for PCI devices.

We don't necessarily need to keep the ASCII strings around at all, and in
the case in which CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=n, they are completely irrelevant. They
are pretty, but we could just export the vendor/device IDs and have a
userspace tool (e.g. sysutils from IBM) look up the name in a userspace
database.


-pat

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