From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1945924AbWBDI6S (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Feb 2006 03:58:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1945937AbWBDI6S (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Feb 2006 03:58:18 -0500 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:27277 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1945924AbWBDI6R (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Feb 2006 03:58:17 -0500 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <43E46BC5.7090301@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 09:54:29 +0100 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: Ben Collins , linux1394-user@lists.sourceforge.net, Jody McIntyre Subject: Re: ieee1394/oui.db (was Re: [PATCH] ieee1394: allow building with absolute SUBDIRS path) References: <1138234743.10202.3.camel@localhost> <20060131052101.GC9667@conscoop.ottawa.on.ca> <43DFC648.4030404@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <1138739715.4456.302.camel@grayson> In-Reply-To: <1138739715.4456.302.camel@grayson> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: (0.469) AWL,BAYES_50 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -=====-=-==- --=- --=-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/