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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.
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:30:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040120013042.GG6309@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040117103859.GA2185@ucw.cz>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-20  1:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-15  3:28 [PATCH] 2.6.1: Update PCI Name database, fix gen-devlist.c for long device names Kieran Morrissey
2004-01-15  4:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-15  9:17   ` Ingo Oeser
2004-01-16  1:23   ` Greg KH
2004-01-16  4:25     ` Dave Jones
2004-01-20  1:29       ` Greg KH
2004-01-16  1:24 ` Greg KH
2004-01-17 10:39 ` Martin Mares
2004-01-20  1:30   ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-01-20  5:07     ` Kieran Morrissey

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