From: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug in USB Generic Serial driver
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 16:06:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-97905639409342@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-97902448220635@msgid-missing>
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:09:12AM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> I sympathize with your misgivings about the USB device ID
> helper macros. As I said a couple of days ago, if we shrink the
> USB_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_xxxx names to USB_MATCH_xxxx, we should not need
> so many helper macros to keep the code readable, and we should be able
> to have labelled initializers.
This is another case of "you can't please everyone".
Linus specifically objected to shorter macros and a lack of helper macros.
Go figure. But, I wanted it in, and so I did it his way. I didn't really
expect him to cram it into 2.4.0 final like he did... but hey, Linux is his
baby, not mine.
Matt
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-09 7:11 Bug in USB Generic Serial driver Greg KH
2001-01-09 8:09 ` Adam J. Richter
2001-01-09 15:37 ` Dunlap, Randy
2001-01-09 16:06 ` Matthew Dharm [this message]
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