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Subject: Re: bluez-5.0 dropped --with-ouifile=PATH
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>
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Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:05:40 -0800
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Hi Pacho,

> > > That option is needed on Gentoo to let it catch oui.txt file present
> > > on /usr/share/misc/oui.txt, could it be re-added to prevent us from
> > > needing to sed src/oui.c looking for that file in our location?
> > 
> > or you build against a recent version of udev that comes with hwdb
> > support. Then it will actually start using the efficient version of
> > reading the OUI values from this file.
> > 
> > There is no plan to keep support for oui.txt for very long. It is still
> > supported as transition period, but that is about it.
>
> And what is replacing oui.txt? udev directly?

as I said above, udev's hwdb. Check udevadm hwdb for a command line
example too. Also src/oui.c is pretty obvious in that regard.

Regards

Marcel