Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc5] intel_rng: substitue magic PCI IDs with macros

Greg KH
2007-01-15T00:31:07Z

On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 01:07:18AM +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 06:31:01AM +1100, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > On 1/15/07, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> > >On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 19:24 +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:
> > >> Substitue intel_rng magic PCI IDs values used in the IDs table
> > >> with the macros defined in pci_ids.h
> > >>
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >hmm this is actually the opposite direction than most of the kernel is
> > >heading in, mostly because the pci_ids.h file is a major maintenance
> > >pain.
> > >
> > >Afaik the current "rule" is: if a PCI ID is only used in one driver, use
> > >the numeric value and not (add) a symbolic constant.
> > >
> >
> > My guess is that the RNG is on the LPC so the values are used in a few
> > places..
> >
>
> Will pci_ids.h be removed from the tree some time in the future then ?

No, it should contain ids that are used in multiple places (vendor ids
are one such example.)

And in this case, the majority of the patch is just using the vendor id,
which in my opinion, is a good idea.

thanks,

greg k-h