Re: [PATCH 24/25] video/ivtv: Convert pci_table entries to PCI_VDEVICE (if PCI_ANY_ID is used)

[Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net>]

On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 18:07 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 21:08 +0200, Peter Huewe wrote:
> >> From: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>

> > a. PCI_ANY_ID indicates to the reader a wildcard match is being
> > performed.  The PCI_VDEVICE() macro hides that to some degree.
> >
> > b. PCI_VENDOR_ID_ICOMP clearly indicates that ICOMP is a vendor.
> > "ICOMP" alone does not hint to the reader that is stands for a company
> > (the now defunct "Internext Compression, Inc.").
> 
> Personally, I'm a fan of comments around things like this to describe
> *exactly* what device(s) they're referring to.

Something like this then for ivtv: 

/* Claim every iTVC15/CX23415 or CX23416 based PCI Subsystem ever made */

?


>  Then ICOMP being all
> alone without the prefix isn't really much of an issue (though it
> could still be easily mistaken for something other than a pci vendor
> id, I suppose).

Probably not.  Another minor side effect is that it breaks a tag search
for easily jumping to the definition to see the ID value.  "ICOMP" won't
be in the tags file, but "PCI_VENDOR_ID_ICOMP" will be.

Regards,
Andy