re: misc/50216: USB, PCI ID data grow quadratically in the repository

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/50216; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
To: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
Cc: misc-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
    netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: re: misc/50216: USB, PCI ID data grow quadratically in the repository
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2015 04:35:38 +1000

 Joerg Sonnenberger writes:
 > On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 01:30:00PM +0000, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
 > > >Fix:
 > > 
 > > Revert the compression done in devlist2h.awk, or replace it with a
 > > different compression algorithm where a small change in the input only
 > > results in a small change in the output.
 > 
 > ...or just create the files during the build.
 
 i would rather avoid this method, since it means "grep" can't find
 the symbol used in the source code.
 
 
 .mrg.