2003-07-18 00:17:16

by Adrian Bunk

Subject: [2.4 patch] add a Conigure.help entry for CONFIG_IEEE1394_OUI_DB

The trivial patch below add a Configure.help entry for
CONFIG_IEEE1394_OUI_DB to 2.4.22-pre6. The text is stolen from
2.6.0-test1.

Please apply
Adrian


--- linux-2.4.22-pre6-full/Documentation/Configure.help.old 2003-07-18 02:26:46.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.4.22-pre6-full/Documentation/Configure.help 2003-07-18 02:28:52.000000000 +0200
@@ -8822,6 +8822,17 @@
Say Y if you really want or need the debugging output, everyone else
says N.

+CONFIG_IEEE1394_OUI_DB
+ If you say Y here, then an OUI list (vendor unique ID's) will be
+ compiled into the ieee1394 module. This doesn't really do much
+ accept being able to display the vendor of a hardware node. The
+ downside is that it adds about 300k to the size of the module,
+ or kernel (depending on whether you compile ieee1394 as a
+ module, or static in the kernel).
+
+ This option is not needed for userspace programs like gscanbus
+ to show this information.
+
Network device support
CONFIG_NETDEVICES
You can say N here if you don't intend to connect your Linux box to

2003-07-18 00:21:27

by Ben Collins

Subject: Re: [2.4 patch] add a Conigure.help entry for CONFIG_IEEE1394_OUI_DB

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 02:32:07AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The trivial patch below add a Configure.help entry for
> CONFIG_IEEE1394_OUI_DB to 2.4.22-pre6. The text is stolen from
> 2.6.0-test1.

Thanks, definitely needed.

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