Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:30:42 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
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 Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:39:00AM +0100, Martin Mares wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> > * 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)
> 
> I think it would be better to increase the name length limit, the long entries
> really have useful information at the end :)

That's probably a good idea.  Kieran, care to make up a patch to do
this?

thanks,

greg k-h
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