Re: [PATCH] Move various PCI IDs to header file

Grant Coady
2006-05-05T22:37:57Z

On Fri, 5 May 2006 09:27:06 -0700 (PDT), "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote:

>On Fri, 5 May 2006, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>
>> Randy.Dunlap wrote:
>> > On Thu, 4 May 2006 18:09:45 -0500 (CDT) Brent Casavant wrote:
>> >
>> >> Move various QLogic, Vitesse, and Intel storage
>> >> controller PCI IDs to the main header file.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>
>> >>
>> >> ---
>> >>
>> >> As suggested by Andrew Morton and Jes Sorenson.
>> >
>> > as compared to:
>> > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=9b860b8c4bde5949b272968597d1426d53080532
>>
>> I guess Andrew and I should be blamed for that. I Andrew suggested
>> putting the IDs in the 'right place' and I took the right place as being
>> the pci_ids.h file.
>>
>> Can't say I agree with the recommendation, having them in pci_ids.h is
>> nice and clean and it allows one to go look through the list, instead
>> they now really become random hex values :( Brent's patch is a perfect
>> example of IDs being used in multiple places, ie. the qla1280 driver
>> and in the IOC4 driver, so the claim in that Documentation/ file doesn't
>> hold water.
>>
>> Anyway, if this is the new rule, then I guess it's back to using the
>> ugly patch :(
>
>FWIW, I'm not saying that I agree with the new rule, just that
>it's there/merged.

When I worked on pci_ids.h cleanup last year I didn't get a clear
idea of whether moving all #defines to the one header file was
desired. Last I looked there were heaps of them scattered all
over. Is there a preferred model for placing these #defines?

Grant.