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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/: use DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE()
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 09:34:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100108073447.GA4070@x200> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B465FF0.80802@garzik.org>

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 05:28:00PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On 01/07/2010 05:25 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 23:58 +0200, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> >> Use DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE() so we get place PCI ids table into correct section
> >> in every case.
> >
> > Good idea, but aren't there are some tables that are not const?
> 
> I hope not...  those tables are read by userland tools.

I checked non-static ones, they are readonly.
and PCI layer expects them to be readonly.

> Messing with the PCI ID tables as runtime is highly unusual, to say the 
> least.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-08  7:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-07 21:58 [PATCH] drivers/net/: use DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE() Alexey Dobriyan
2010-01-07 22:25 ` Joe Perches
2010-01-07 22:28   ` Jeff Garzik
2010-01-08  7:34     ` Alexey Dobriyan [this message]
2010-01-08  7:54       ` David Miller

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