Re: [linux-usb-devel] [2.6 patch] usb/serial/oti6858.c: cleanups

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 02:14:36PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Montag 12 November 2007 schrieb Adrian Bunk:
> > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:40:43PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > > Am Montag 05 November 2007 schrieb Adrian Bunk:
> > > > This patch containsthe following cleanups:
> > > > - make the needlessly global send_data() static
> > > > - an author without anemail address is OK, not a FIXME
> > > 
> > > That should be up to the author. If he thinks it should be there it might
> > > be worth a FIXME
> > 
> > I would be very surprised if the reason for these FIXMEs was different 
> > from the driver submitter not knowing a current address of the author...
> 
> Is there any evidence the author didn't submit it?

Look at commit 49cdee0ed0fce9e1bda81f5dcad8d5cce6aec983.

> > > > - directly put the IDs into the id_table
> > > 
> > > Why?
> > 
> > I don't have a strong opinion on this one, but my impression was that 
> > there's generally a move away from using once-used #define's for such 
> > stuff.
> 
> Well, vendor IDs should be centralised.
>...

It was #define OTI6858_VENDOR_ID      0x0ea0

And the only other usages of this vendor ID are in 
drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h where vendor ID
defines do not seem to be used at all...

> 	Regards
> 		Oliver

cu
Adrian

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