Re: 2.6.15-rc2 pci_ids.h cleanup is a pain

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 12:51:45PM +1100, Grant Coady wrote:
 > Hi Andrew, Greg,
 > 
 > On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:25:58 -0800, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
 > 
 > >Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
 > >>
 > >> On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 02:27:23PM -0800, David Fox wrote:
 > >> > I'm sure I'm not the only person that applies patches to the kernel that 
 > >> > use some of the 500 plus PCI IDS eliminated from pci_ids.h by rc2.  I 
 > >> > would like to see the PCI ids that were removed simply because the don't 
 > >> > occur in the main kernel source restored.  Is there a rationale for 
 > >> > removing them that I'm not aware of?
 > >> 
 > >> They were not being used.  Why would you want them in there?
 > >
 > >Because they contained useful information which had been accumulated by
 > >many people over a long period of time.
 > >
 > >Throwing that information away seemed rather pointless, especially as the
 > >cost of retaining it was so low.
 > 
 > There's an out-of-tree reference, the pci.ids website, that carries 
 > this information, do we need the reference info in the kernel as well?  
 > 
 > So far two people raised an objection, the other wants to maintain 
 > an out-of-tree driver, D. Fox didn't say why he needs the symbols.

Three. I already mentioned we broke the compilation of the
advansys driver because of this.

		Dave