Re: [PATCH 7/8] pci: Add CircuitCo VENDOR ID and MinnowBoard DEVICE ID

[Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>]

On Wed, 2013-06-26 at 13:37 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-06-26 at 10:32 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> 
> >> +#define PCI_VENDOR_ID_CIRCUITCO              0x1cc8
> >> +
> >>  #define PCI_VENDOR_ID_TEKRAM         0x1de1
> >>  #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_TEKRAM_DC290   0xdc29
> >
> >
> > Thanks Bjorn. When I reuse this Subsystem ID and there is more than one
> > usage, I should send a patch to pci_ids.h adding it and replace the hex
> > value in all drivers with the new define. Is that right?
> 
> Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
> 
> But Peter's comment makes more sense to me now.  The spec refers to
> that config register as "Subsystem ID," not "Subsystem Device ID," but
> I was confused because most existing usage treats it as a device ID.
> For example, the field in struct pci_device_id is named "subdevice,"
> and all the existing #defines in pci_ids.h are of the form
> PCI_SUBDEVICE_ID_*.
> 
> Device IDs are pretty specific identifiers, so I was thinking that a
> "sub-device ID" would be even more specific.  Then it would make no
> sense to have a "sub-device ID" that was as generic as "MINNOWBOARD."
> But the register is actually *not* a "sub-device ID," and I can see
> that using the same Subsystem ID for all the devices on a board might
> make sense.
> 
> So I think the name PCI_DEVICE_ID_CIRCUITCO_MINNOWBOARD is a bit of a
> misnomer, and something like PCI_SUBSYSTEM_CIRCUITCO_MINNOWBOARD would
> make it more clear that it really isn't sharing the device ID space
> assigned to CircuitCo.  It would make perfect sense to have a Device
> ID, e.g., "PCI_DEVICE_ID_CIRCUIT_CO_xxx 0x0001," that has nothing to
> do with the Subsystem ID 0x0001.
> 
> If you want to do something like that (or even keep your original
> patch), I can put that in my -next branch.  Just let me know.
> 
> Bjorn


I would be happy to change DEVICE to SUBSYSTEM in the the pci_ids.h:

+#define PCI_VENDOR_ID_CIRCUITCO		0x1cc8
+#define PCI_SUBSYSTEM_ID_CITCUITCO_MINNOWBOARD	0x0001

Would you like me to send another patch?

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Technical Lead - Linux Kernel