Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 04 Feb 2006 09:54:29 +0100 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: ieee1394/oui.db (was Re: [PATCH] ieee1394: allow building with absolute SUBDIRS path) |
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Ben Collins wrote on 2006-01-31: > On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 21:19 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: >>Jody McIntyre wrote: >>>Does anyone else feel like killing oui.c? >> >>I have no strong feelings for or against oui.db. It is nice to have the >>vendor names decoded in sysfs, although the footprint is considerable: >> >>$ du oui.o ieee1394.ko >>252K oui.o >>356K ieee1394.ko >> >>OTOH, nobody is forced to compile it in. And except for the Makefile >>patch and .gitignore patch which came in this month, oui.db does not >>impose a real maintenance burden. The fact that we are too lazy to >>update the db saves us work too. :-) >> >>BTW, oui.db has 7048 entries but IEEE lists 8949 today. Either people >>vote oui.db off the island now, or I will submit an update. > > I vote update it. I really think something like OUI needs to be part of > the kernel lib/ though. Lots of things, like ethernet and bluetooth can > use it. No one really does though.
Yes, drivers/ieee1394/ is the wrong place for oui.db. In case oui.db was not killed by then, I will submit patches to move oui.db to lib/ later this month. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-==- --=- --=-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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