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

From: Stefan Richter
Date: Sat Feb 04 2006 - 03:56:42 EST


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.
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