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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Using FTDI device ids from Linux kernel

From: Tomasz Moń <desowin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 08:02:16 +0200
On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 5:54 PM Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Do you have any idea how volatile this data is, how quickly it’s changing?
> There are already some data sets which are picked up weekly from external sources (e.g., IEEE manuf, PEN). This could be handled the same way if as volatile as these.

Looking at the Linux kernel git history, the last (not reverted)
change to linux/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h was on 23 March
2018. Before that there were few changes a year in that file.