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

From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>,
	linux1394-user@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Jody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com>
Subject: Re: ieee1394/oui.db (was Re: [PATCH] ieee1394: allow building with absolute SUBDIRS path)
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 09:54:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43E46BC5.7090301@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1138739715.4456.302.camel@grayson>

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
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