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On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:19:20PM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: > > 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: I guess it's nice (I've never compiled it in until a few days ago mind you) but this type of thing is userland's job. I've been meaning to write a good ls1394 for some time now. I have one that's too crappy to release :) > $ 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. :-) No, it doesn't, but its existance offends me :) I don't care deeply though. If people want it, I'll live with it being in. Cheers, Jody > 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. > -- > 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/ -- - 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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