Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:23:14 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Kieran Morrissey <linux@mgpenguin.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.1: Update PCI Name database, fix gen-devlist.c for long device names.
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:05:28PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Kieran Morrissey wrote:
> >Hi all and sundry..
> >
> >Although /proc/pci and by extension the name database is allegedly 
> >legacy and therefore deprecated, some (including myself) still use it 
> >for things such as phpSysInfo, and the still-widespread usage of it is 
> >obvious in the regularity of slight patches to pci.ids. So, this is an 
> >all-inclusive patch to bring things up to date:
> >
> >* Updates pci.ids with a snapshot from http://pciids.sourceforge.net/ as 
> >at 14 Jan 04.
> >* Fixes gen-devlist.c to truncate long device names rather than reject 
> >the whole database
> >  (previously the latest databases had some devices that were too long 
> >and caused a kernel with the latest db to fail to compile)
> 
> 
> Well, appreciated, but we really do need to remove it.  We don't need 
> these strings in the kernel at all.  pci.ids is just a static lookup 
> table that is best kept in userspace.

It will be removed in 2.7.

thanks,

greg k-h
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