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
next prev parent 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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