Re: [PATCH] 2.6.1: Update PCI Name database, fix gen-devlist.c for long device names.

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Jan 19 2004 - 20:54:56 EST


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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