From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262551AbVCIXKT (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:10:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262284AbVCIXH6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:07:58 -0500 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:61835 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262373AbVCIWbk (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 17:31:40 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] resync ATI PCI idents into base kernel From: Alan Cox To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Greg KH , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20050309220032.GA9289@infradead.org> References: <200503072216.j27MGxtP024504@hera.kernel.org> <20050308053941.GA16450@kroah.com> <1110276929.28860.93.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050308223353.GA19278@infradead.org> <1110383142.28860.184.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050309220032.GA9289@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1110407386.9942.262.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 22:29:47 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 22:00, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Which is? That's you're so special you don't need to care about the > workflow the ordinary humans have created? I don't see the connection between your comment and the thread sorry. If I send it all to Andrew what will happen. Andrew can either break it into zillions of pieces and everyone will say "But why do we need this" or apply it. You might want to ask why so many new drivers don't bother using pci_ids.h, I'd venture to say its a defensive mechanism against broken process. Alan