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SubjectRe: [PATCH] 2.6.1: Update PCI Name database, fix gen-devlist.c for long device names.
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 02:28:39PM +1100, Kieran Morrissey wrote:
> Hi all and sundry..
>
> Although /proc/pci and by extension the name database is allegedly legacy
> and therefore deprecated, some (including myself) still use it for things
> such as phpSysInfo, and the still-widespread usage of it is obvious in the
> regularity of slight patches to pci.ids. So, this is an all-inclusive patch
> to bring things up to date:
>
> * Updates pci.ids with a snapshot from http://pciids.sourceforge.net/ as at
> 14 Jan 04.
> * Fixes gen-devlist.c to truncate long device names rather than reject the
> whole database
> (previously the latest databases had some devices that were too long and
> caused a kernel with the latest db to fail to compile)

Your patch is line-wrapped and can't be applied.

Please try it again.

> I've included the (minor) changes to gen-devlist.c in this email if anyone
> cares to discuss them, but since the pci database changes aren't really
> that worthy of discussion on the list and the patch is 83kb, THE COMPLETE
> PATCH has been posted on the web:
>
> http://digital.mgpenguin.net/linux/patch-2.6.1.pci-db/patch.2.6.1.pci-db.diff

Feel free to just send this patch to me, as it's much easier for me to
apply this if I get an email with it in it (include the description
please too.)

thanks,

greg k-h
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