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

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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