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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:19:20 +0100
From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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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.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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