Re: [PATCH] pci_ids.h: add new Atheros USB vendor ID

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 02:15:46PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:09:32PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>  > > the closest we have is drivers/hid/hid-ids.h and we might just should
>  > > have Greg create a usb-ids.h file.
>  >
>  > Ick, no, there's no such file for a good reason.  Put your device ids in
>  > the driver files, no need to share it across the whole kernel.
> 
> I agree. In fact, I'd go further, and say that the bulk of what we have
> in pci_ids.h is also pointlessly shared. Only a tiny fraction of the device
> entries in that file are used by multiple files in the kernel.

I agree with that as well, which is why when I was PCI maintainer, I
didn't allow any new additions to the pci_ids.h file, unless it was
going to be an id that was shared by different drivers.  That cut the
new additions down to about none :)

thanks,

greg k-h