Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:23:14 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.6.1: Update PCI Name database, fix gen-devlist.c for long device names. |
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:05:28PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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) > > > Well, appreciated, but we really do need to remove it. We don't need > these strings in the kernel at all. pci.ids is just a static lookup > table that is best kept in userspace.
It will be removed in 2.7.
thanks,
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