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

[Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>]

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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Stefan Richter
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