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From: Jody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: linux1394-user@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: ieee1394/oui.db (was Re: [PATCH] ieee1394: allow building with absolute SUBDIRS path)
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 23:08:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060204040858.GG22002@conscoop.ottawa.on.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43DFC648.4030404@s5r6.in-berlin.de>

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.
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-04  4:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-26  0:19 [PATCH] ieee1394: allow building with absolute SUBDIRS path Johannes Berg
2006-01-26 22:28 ` Stefan Richter
2006-01-27 11:31   ` Johannes Berg
2006-01-31  5:21 ` Jody McIntyre
2006-01-31 20:19   ` ieee1394/oui.db (was Re: [PATCH] ieee1394: allow building with absolute SUBDIRS path) Stefan Richter
2006-02-04  4:08     ` Jody McIntyre [this message]
     [not found]     ` <1138739715.4456.302.camel@grayson>
2006-02-04  8:54       ` Stefan Richter

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