Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:24:31 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Kieran Morrissey <linux@mgpenguin.net>
Cc: 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 Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 02:28:39PM +1100, 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)

Your patch is line-wrapped and can't be applied.

Please try it again.

> I've included the (minor) changes to gen-devlist.c in this email if anyone 
> cares to discuss them, but since the pci database changes aren't really 
> that worthy of discussion on the list and the patch is 83kb, THE COMPLETE 
> PATCH has been posted on the web:
> 
> http://digital.mgpenguin.net/linux/patch-2.6.1.pci-db/patch.2.6.1.pci-db.diff

Feel free to just send this patch to me, as it's much easier for me to
apply this if I get an email with it in it (include the description
please too.)

thanks,

greg k-h
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