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add a Conigure.help entry for CONFIG_IEEE1394_OUI_DB

PATCH In review Adrian Bunk 2 participants 2 messages Jul 18, 2003 Documentation

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PATCH 1/1 add a Conigure.help entry for CONFIG_IEEE1394_OUI_DB

The trivial patch below add a Configure.help entry for CONFIG_IEEE1394_OUI_DB to 2.4.22-pre6. The text is stolen from 2.6.0-test1.

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Documentation/Configure.help renamed from Documentation/Configure.help.old +11 -0
@@ -8822,6 +8822,17 @@
   Say Y if you really want or need the debugging output, everyone else
   says N.
 
+CONFIG_IEEE1394_OUI_DB
+  If you say Y here, then an OUI list (vendor unique ID's) will be
+  compiled into the ieee1394 module. This doesn't really do much
+  accept being able to display the vendor of a hardware node. The
+  downside is that it adds about 300k to the size of the module,
+  or kernel (depending on whether you compile ieee1394 as a
+  module, or static in the kernel).
+
+  This option is not needed for userspace programs like gscanbus
+  to show this information.
+
 Network device support
 CONFIG_NETDEVICES
   You can say N here if you don't intend to connect your Linux box to
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Quoted 3 lines · Adrian Bunk

The trivial patch below add a Configure.help entry for CONFIG_IEEE1394_OUI_DB to 2.4.22-pre6. The text is stolen from 2.6.0-test1.

Thanks, definitely needed.

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Debian     - http://www.debian.org/
Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/
Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/