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SubjectRe: ieee1394/oui.db (was Re: [PATCH] ieee1394: allow building with absolute SUBDIRS path)
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.
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Stefan Richter
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