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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] make pci_ids lowercase hexa
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:45:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070617214555.GA305@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4674DDEF.8090600@gmail.com>

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 09:08:31AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Greg KH napsal(a):
> > On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 05:44:52PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> >> make pci_ids lowercase hexa
> > 
> > Why?  What good is this going to do in the long run?
> 
> It's just cleanup to get rid of things like this:
>  #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_PROMISE_20246	0x4d33
>  #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_PROMISE_20262	0x4d38
> -#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_PROMISE_20263	0x0D38
> +#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_PROMISE_20263	0x0d38
>  #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_PROMISE_20268	0x4d68

Get rid of what?  What's wrong with upper case hex numbers?  This seems
like a pretty gratitous change to me.

> But still not necessary, if you think, it's useless -- but why don't
> have whole document formatted in one way. However this patch needs a
> -fix if ACKed due to bad regexp used (omitted '*' changes only the
> first uppercase letter found). If NACKed, this doesn't matter.
> 
> > Also, shouldn't you send pci specific patches like this to the pci
> > maintainer?  :)
> 
> Hell yes :/, every second time I post something, somebody is missing
> in the CC list, grr.

Care to resend your other fixes to me, if you still think they are
needed?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-17 21:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-16 15:44 [PATCH 1/6] make pci_ids lowercase hexa Jiri Slaby
2007-06-16 15:45 ` [PATCH 2/6] pci_ids, remove double or more empty lines Jiri Slaby
2007-06-16 15:46 ` [PATCH 3/6] ATM: lanai, change VENDOR to DEVICE Jiri Slaby
2007-06-16 15:46 ` [PATCH 4/6] i386: traps, " Jiri Slaby
2007-06-16 15:47 ` [PATCH 5/6] pci_ids, reorder some entries Jiri Slaby
2007-06-16 15:48 ` [PATCH 6/6] pci_ids, add atheros and 3com_2 vendors Jiri Slaby
2007-06-16 19:57 ` [PATCH 1/6] make pci_ids lowercase hexa Greg KH
2007-06-17  7:08   ` Jiri Slaby
2007-06-17 21:45     ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-06-18  8:39       ` Jiri Slaby

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